Research is really so time-consuming. I spent the morning looking for case studies about capitalist influence on Polish planning practice. There are a few possibilities, but as usual you don't know what you have until you have read it all.
Same with research proposals. It's really hard to plan for what you will do until you are doing it. I'm much more a fan of grounded theory - let the questions evolve as you go along. But all the funders and professors want to know exactly what you plan to do, and when - regardless of how little you know and how likely it will be that your ideas will have to be completely changed. It feels so wasteful of effort.
Haven't done much of the "regular" work for the coming week either. And it's getting near the end of my useful workday.
Posted by otto0114 at October 2, 2004 08:57 PM