I thought that my topic was rather muindane but the wird thing is the reactions that I get. I am doing the history of the emergence of public opinion and opinion polls in Australia. Strangely though I get two reactions when I tell people what I am doing either a)they get all glassy eyed and give me that I want to get the hell out of here look or b)they tell me how I should proceed to do my doctorate and that of course it can't be that difficult.