43 days...

AHHHH. So, I have 43 days left on this trip and I'm in freakout mode. It's the good kind. The kind that forces you to work. I'll admit I was very leisurely with my research since I had so much time, but now I know I don't have much left so it's time to really, really focus and with things sorted out for my teaching and living situation for next year, a better sense of what the focus and structure -- Chapter wise -- of my dissertation is I can really put my efforts back into my work.

Of course, I'm so ready to be back home with friends and family, to spend quality time with Carly -- not just Skype time -- and be able to look at books and records I've collected back in the US.

Now I just have to pin point better what I need to look at in the archive and then zero in on that stuff. It's not hard and now my French is much better so I can get through things a lot easier. I just hope I've "done enough" 'cause I don't know when I'll get back here.

Now I just have to think of this not as the end of an 8 month trip, but a 6 week research trip. That'll focus the mind.