Stay-Puft Marshmallow Chapter

Don't ask. Suffice it to say, Chapter Two just keeps growing. Back in JULY (sigh, so much time...) when I started Chapter Two, I visualized it as having four major sections. And perhaps that's why I keep feeling like I'm getting NOWHERE with this thing. It just keeps growing. It now looks like it will take at least six sections to cover this survey. The good news is that I've made some progress today. I finally finished that last section-that-would-not-end (#3)--I've been pouring over it forever. So now I'm on major Section #4. It is looking like this section is going to be shorter than the previous two. I'm just going cover two more sources/figures (unless I just get inspired to do more) and I think that will be more than enough to cover the next few years in the survey. Sections 5 and 6 will probably be especially long since I need to treat both traditional and nontraditional politics in the late twentieth /twenty-first centuries. But I'll deal with that Wednesday and Thursday.

In other news, the journal submission is ready to go. I took a couple days to proof it (mostly being slow and lazy), and I found a lot of wording I didn't like and a FEW major typos. So I had to take a fine-toothed comb to it and I'm glad I spent some time doing that. The piece will officially be on its way in the morning. I'll get started on Possible Publication #2 after I finish wrestling this Stay-Puft Chapter of mine....