Weekly(ish) Journal

Week 1: Introduction to the MRes

Week 2: Angela Chen, Barbie, and the Evangelical Christianity Rabbit Hole

Week 3: Brainstorming, Reading List/Watchlist Thoughts, and more Angela Chen

Week 4: Croteau, Hoynes, and Sex Education

Week 5: Brainstorming, Croteau and Hoynes, Sherronda J. Brown, and a Long Methodology Tangent

Week 6: Dubious Sitcoms, Content Analysis, Sherronda J. Brown, a Fun Trip to London, and My New Best Friend Laura Mulvey

Week 7: The End of Sherronda J. Brown, the Beginning of Getting Ethics Committee-d, and My Other New Best Friend Michel Foucault

Week 8: Revising my Research Question, House, Game of Thrones, the Return of Sex Education, and A Lot of Feminist and Queer Perspectives

Week 9: Contextual Review and More Methodology Tangents

Week 10: OH BOY GUYS I HOPE YOU'RE REALLY INTERESTED IN RESEARCH METHODS

Week 11: Gender, Class, Race, and Editing the Contextual Review

Week 12: To do lists, Gender and Media, and the Ace in the UK Report

Week 13: Young, Dyer, Doing Interviews, and some contextual review outtakes

Week 14: The Infamous Hand-in Week

Interlude 1: How I lost my mind trying to write an ethics proposal

Week 15: Crawling Out of the Ethics Proposal Hole

Week 16: Back to Tutorials and Back to Sex Education

Week 17: A Second Fun Trip to London, The Sexual Subject, Minimizing Marriage, and the Sad Horse Show

Week 18: More Minimizing Marriage, More Sad Horse Show, The History of Sexuality, and a Musical Theatre Tangent

Week 19: Aro Awareness Week, The End of the Sad Horse Show, The Beginning of the Teen Shows and Documentaries Deep Dive, and Yet More Brake and Foucault

Week 20: Brake, Focus Group Thoughts, the Human Library, a lot of Thoughts About Animation, Three Whole TV Shows, a Long Buffy Tangent, and Everything Going Really Fine

Week 21: Barcelona Trip and The Last of Foucault

Week 22: TV Handbooks, Teen TV, Two Billion Aromanticism Articles, Heartstopper, and way too many Tangents About Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Week 23: The Dreaded Presentation, The Even More Dreaded Thesis Draft, Open TV, and Generation

Week 24: International Asexuality Day, the end of Brake and Generation, and Fun Trip to London...3!

Week 25: More IAD Panels, Learning About Focus Groups and Thematic Analysis, the start of The Imperfects, and the Triumphant Return of Heartbreak High

Week 26: More Thematic Analysis and Imperfects, The Celluloid Closet, and a Fake Focus Group (Fake-us Group?)

Week 27: The End of Thematic Analysis (the book), the Start of Thematic Analysis (the process), and Fake-us Group Feedback

Week 28: Summative Review and Thesis Week AKA How I Survived Seven Metaphorical Nukes Dropping on me All At Once (not that I'm being dramatic about it or anything)

Week 29: Unit Hand-in and Focus Groups!!

Week 31: The Start of My Adventures in Transcription

Week 32: More Adventures in Transcription and Dabbling in Performance Art

Week 33: The Abject Single, Disclosure, The End of Transcription and the Beginning of Coding, and a Little Bit More Performance Art

Week 34: Adventures (and Misadventures) in Coding

Week 35: Writing and Identity, the End of Coding and the Beginning of Theme Generation

Week 36: Final TV Themes, the Final Documentary, and the Final Round of Performance Art

Week 37: Formative Review and Thinking About PhDs

Week 38: Thesis Draft Hand-in and Michael Paramo

Week 39: Yet More Thesis Editing and More Michael Paramo

Week 40: The End of Paramo and Further Thesis Work

Week 41: Thesis Writing, Summative Review Writing, and Yet Another Buffy Tangent

Week 42: Summative Review, Thesis Editing, and (Finally!) Choosing a Title