I may take you up on this, but I don't expect to have anything to edit for another 9 months or so, and certainly not before another 3. What I'm doing right now is writing a proposal -- in essence telling them what they told me to do. My thesis topic was picked not by my own cleverness, but as the most interesting in a list of one-line blurbs they handed to me. And it really is interesting. But I don't know enough about the project, or what they want out of it, or even really the bit they're interested in, to give them things like a preliminary outline, a list of thesis questions, a 'mothodology,' or a potential timeline of study. These are all the things they want from me, and all the things I need to get from my advisor, but she's notoriously busy.

The upshot of this is I imagine it shouldn't take too much more than meeting with her to get this whole messy bit cleaned up, and I have a meeting scheduled for 8am this coming thursday. In the meantime, though, I feel lost and uncertain, and to be honest, there's little I know how to handle less than uncertainty.

It'll be OK. Everything'll work out. I just worry too much.