the new study seem to be just the thing i needed to get me going. i've always known that spaces affect me, and so i shouldn't be surprised that it took changing my space to change my relationship to writing. because my old and little desk wouldn't fit up the stairs, i've stretched a huge board over my filing cabinets to create an appropriately large desk for the large task of dissertating. i can spread everything out and actually SEE how to put it all together -- which isn't, of course, to suggest that it's coming together yet. also a deadline tomorrow (one that was supposed to be enforced on feb. 15) makes me more eager than usual to get the fingers moving.