Making progress
Scribble, scribble, scribble:
1) I've dispatched both of my conference papers for the semester. That will be the end of conferencing for the time being (the "time being" being until next summer at the earliest, in all likelihood).
2) ...But one of the conference papers has been selected for the conference proceedings. Fortunately, I don't have anything to write, as the longer essay already exists, but I do have to do some scrubbing up (or down?). The final version is due next March.
3) Now I have to finish up the article I'm writing for BRANCH about post-Papal Aggression anti-Catholicism (end of the semester/beginning of summer).
4) And then dispatch a book review (same time frame).
5) Plus another teeny little book review (end of this month).
6) Followed by an introductory overview of Victorian religious issues for one companion (next semester). Which I'll be working on alongside...
7) ...an article about fin-de-siecle Catholicism and literature for another companion (end of next semester).
8) Meanwhile, I'm also reading up for an article that got a revise-and-resubmit, which has to go back to the editor by the end of the year.
After all that, I can get back to Book III 1/2.
Er, if I haven't committed myself to something else in the interim.
Which I shouldn't do.
But...