In a week and a day, I leave for the Philippines to begin my thesis. Will be there for 4 weeks to gather data for this massive project that started two years ago. And as predicted by other PhD students and MA students doing the same thing, have become very burnt out on the topic. Not jaded. Still feel passionately for the topic, but am definitely on the brink of throwing all my research out the window and watching the wind catch single leaflets and fly them around. Just for the fun of it. That would be such a cool scene in a film with all that surreal overbearing music in a scene with no dialogue. Like that scene from Wender's Wings of Desire and Damiel just staring down looking at the city, wondering what mortality would be like.