What is the ideological function of ideological function?

It seemed like a good plan. I wonder if everyone who attempts to write a thesis feels like this? Sure, it beats real work. Sure, it's everything I've ever wanted in a job - my time is flexible (to a degree), it's mildly interesting, I don't exactly have a boss, just a freaky dude supervisor I'm not completely sure of and a faceless department and yes, if it works and something eventuates that something could very well be a reasonably serious pay cheque and of course a mild sense of intellectual superiority, but I already have that last one (mild!). So what's the point? Therein lies my point. What IS the point? To avoid the 9-5 drudgery of my experiences of working thus far? Is that all? I started this project 6 months ago. It was all exciting and fresh and new. I laboured through a proposal and all of the official stuff and now, a few weeks into writing, I'm so bored of it. Who, really in all serious gives a flying fuck about the ideological function of fairy tales in modern film? Me? I'm writing the damned thing and have since realised I don't really care. the plan was to work on this for three years, turning it into a doctorate next year. I really do like the idea of a doctorate (intellectual superiority, or is it just sibling rivalry?) But three years of the same topic? Urgh. Even if I manage to get through a year and a half and ditch the doctorate, that's a freakin long time to be having days like these. It's only 12 o'clock. I've worked for hours, with probably only half an hour of actual production. I just don't care about it. But I care about the process and the result, kind of. So I will muddle on, wasting time telling the Internet about problems such as these that are essentially unproblematic, wondering why 'Internet' is a proper noun. Hey, if you're reading this far you only have yourself to blame.