Spent all day at school, went to dinner & hung out w/bf. Meeting w/advisor was not embarassing (conference behavior was not mentioned), but i thought i had a topic and then i didn't. I thought i had a great idea, but not really doable, i guess, with the manipulation. He wants things theory-based, while i come up with things out of my ass. More interesting that way.
I don't want to do what other researchers didn't do, I want to answer my own research questions. I do want to get started on my dissertation, but I know that the actual data collection and analysis will really suck. Need so many participants, need at least 3 confederates, one at a time. I feel like it will take me until 2012 to finish data collection and then if i actually finish collecting, it will take me another year to analyze it.
Don't get me wrong, it would be a great study and probably get published. But i don't want to spend a year collecting data. I don't really have a year to do that - i want to be done in August 2009. that's next summer.
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