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[stormdog]

This is rough. I'm trying to tie a lot of concepts together that I think will mesh really well, but they don't do it in straight-forward and direct ways. A lot of my "writing" time is being spent thinking of how to put them together in ways that show their conceptual similarity. Things like democratization vs. individualization of consumer culture tied to activeness and passiveness in the consumptive experience. Performance of class role tied to self-image and creation of self-identity.
And after being told by the professor (the chair of the history department) that "I have a career as a writer ahead of me", that he's looking forward to reading my paper, and that he'd love to have me as a history major when I declare my second one, I'm nervous that my paper won't live up to expectations. Because I always worry that my work won't live up to expectations. I have to work on that....