Questing for answers

The semester is winding to a close. I turned in my 15 page South Africa essay last friday, my Austin story (Moss, Sea, and Sky) with critical introduction on Tuesday, finished classes up, and met with Caswell today. I have the rough draft for my Honors Thesis done (with the exception of a final scene) and wanted to know where I go from here. I read over it all yesterday and...didn't like it. It's a good narrative, but that's all I feel like it is this way. As Professor Caswell put it: I have themes, I just don't know where I'm going with them and they need to deepen.

(fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!- Ty McDonald)

Anyway, so he told me not to work on it anymore. I was going to start revising it, but he said it would help me make the connections and see the larger picture if I set it down and left it alone for a month.

BAH! SO I am essentially done. I just need to put it together in an official honors thesis format, turn it in, and do my Spanish final.

BUT as one of the ways in which I am going to "deepen" and "expand" my honors thesis is to include quotes and commentary by other writers.
I'm starting with two of the books I read while I was in Costa Rica and then moving onto Costa Rican literature.

I am very excited about all of this.
So I wanted to share the advice, because I think it's applicable to more situations than just writing. Maybe we should just set things down, let them be, and then come back to them. The answers will come.

The answer is 42.
-Howard Fisher (my former writing mentor)

The answer is 47.
-Rajiv (my physical therapist)