The penultimate in Bronte studies

I finished my next-to-final draft (which I suddenly realized today I could call "penultimate," thereby removing unecessary words -- which I was doing a LOT of in my revisions -- and using a really cool word I don't get to use very often) of my dissertation today! Go me!

Now I'm going to take a week or so to unwind, fix the footnotes, and prepare for some Bloomington things before making final revisions and handing it in. But at the moment, it's feeling pretty good. If the footnotes were fixed and someone appeared and told me I had to hand it in right now, I would hand it over with a light heart.