So I got my thesis draft back from my advisor. (Which means my preceptor is in trouble. Only one other person besides me turned in a draft, and he got it earlier than my advisor did. I’m impatient, clearly) In his email he described the draft as “well on its way to being an MA thesis,” but then when I met with him he seemed to imply some major problems with it. (We didn’t talk in detail because I want to go other his comments and prep for a meeting with him on Monday) so I don’t know. And I’m afraid to read his comments, I’m such a wuss. 

I really need a Carl Schmitt icon. He was actually quite attractive when he was young, for an academic.

So I need to revise my section on the exception, makes some clarifications about how we understand sovereignty in the United States, in terms of our constitution. And I need to be more explicit about the distinctions between the war in Iraq and the overall war on terror. I’m pretty sure that this is doable, but I’m still nervous. It’s due two weeks from today. I am actively seeking people to read it; I plan to have the major corrections done by Sunday and hopefully will send it around. I wish I were in CIR instead of MAPSS; they’re put into small groups at the beginning of the year and read each others drafts for major papers and stuff. So if anyone wants to read “Between Order and Exception: A Schmittian Perspective on the War on Terror” I will bake you cookies, or something. I reveal that Bush is an idiot and his moral rhetoric about trerorists is dangerous. I accuse prominent legal scholars of misapprorpiating Schmitt and missing what’s really important in discussing Schmitt/the war on terror. 

And when this is done, I get to read 1000s of pages for my two IR classes so I can kick ass on the finals.