So as many of you know, I've been writing my term paper for HuCo 510 over the last week. What many of you do not know is that it's turning into a bit of a monster, and will likely expand after-the-fact to be my MA thesis.

I started out writing a paper on personal documentary on the web, in the form of weblogs, livejournals, vlogging, etc... As I started writing it, however, I realized that there's something very central to all of this personal documentary, and that's the confession. So I've been looking at everything I'm pulling in (sites like grouphug and notproud as well as livejournal and personal blogs) through that lens.

And I have a confession to make - it's driving me nutty! I'm having a hell of a time putting it all together in my head and keeping all the theory straight (I'm also trying to pull in Dori Laub's thoughts on witnessing, but haven't yet done an adequate job of it). Kirsten's been doing her best to keep my sane and focused, which is definitely helping. But I'm looking forward to just being done this paper.