Well not quite there with Worship

My aim a fortnight ago was to get my worship chapter off to my supervisor by today. I have not achieved this and it will have to wait now until next weekend. That said it is now in a full draft but I need to go through and do the grammar checking and the bibliography. I have the feeling that I am going to have to cite people a lot more often than they are in the text already. I reference ideas by phrases repeated and suspect I need to cite the originator every time I do it.

There are reasons for my delay. Firstly most of last weekend was taken up with writing the an appendix which took very straightforward stuff out of the chapter that was comparative between Ulverstane and St Andrew's Edgerton. This involved a statistical analysis and a detailed qualitative one of hymns.

Secondly just before Christmas I got back my notes from the majority of the sermons I listened too while on placement. This meant I could finally do some sort of an analysis of them. It was interesting, my notes are pictorial (the picture is from one of them) . There is however a symbolic system in them and by spreading them out by time with images used I got a feel for themes and how they were spread through the year. For instance Easter day always had an empty tomb. Sometimes it was obvious that they were exposition on a single passage, other times they worked around a theme.  However because they were pictures I was making links between elements in the drawing and also across drawings. Actually by the time I had spent several hours on it I had plenty to write.

The third reason is I decided last week that is was time I put some effort into sorting my finances out. No real problems but they have not been as efficiently managed as I would like. That took up a couple of hours on Friday and left me very tired and whacked.

If I am honest it is a lot better than it was and now I think has a cohesive story. I also think it has got shorter. So I am hoping that when sent my supervisor will be happy with it. I have been doing pomodoro and on the whole it has kept me relatively well focused. However that does not work when referencing and doing the grammar. I expect that by next Saturday at the latest I will have the chapter off to my supervisor.