Not over till it's over: 18 days

Hi my friends. I am still very happy that I was able to make that spanish deadline. But it's not over yet, and that's proving hard to accept. I was very happy and relaxed on Monday after having sent the baby to Pamplona. On Tuesday I made phone calls and wrote emails and organized stuff for the defense in September. Today I went to the university, bought some books from the old library (really good bargains! on books that would otherwise be extremely expensive), talked to my tutor... and wrote a little bit... but it's being very hard to get back on the road. My mind is already planning the trip to Pamplona... and I have to tell myself that these days, these few days until the 30th are the last ones: this is it! whatever I have thought and found and read during these years, and does not get on paper until then, is going to be definitely left out. And there is still a lot that I have to get on paper, especially now that I know where the story ends, and more or less how to get there! So it really is worth it! the last effort.
Anyways, I wanted to tell you the steps that I absolutely need to do before handing it in:
-finish writing Chapter V (two days).
-finish writing Chapter IV (one day).
-put in the corrections that I already marked for Chapter I and II.
-reread Chapter III and put in corrections (both of these one day).
-write the review of bibliography for the introduction, which means reading some articles that I still haven't read (four days - read and write right away)
-WRITE THE CONCLUSIONS* (two days)
-write the rest of Chapter I:
-overview of Schelling's book
-write about the edition of his manuscripts and put in a lot of material that I found in the archives: a manuscript, the letter from his son, the notes from his conferences.
-write about the time when he was writing this book, from his Diaries and Letters.
-ask the guy who reads the diaries for information
-write the information I already have (not new one) about Aristotle in XIXth Germany and the five or six people that Schelling quotes.
-review and actualize introduction (1 day)
-review the whole thing again (3 days)
-put in English corrections (1 day)
-format, print, check for typos again (1 day)
As you can see, it's still quite a bit! This last part, Chapter I, is a pity because I have a lot of material, but it's not strictly necessary, so I will leave it for the end. I will probably only have about two days for that... Oh oh... I checked again and I don't have time at all for this Chapter I!! mmmm I'm going to have to hurry up! it's good to realize that.
After being so close to the first deadline (5 days... 3 days... 1 day...) now 18 days felt like all the time in the world. Now I realize it's not much.

Ok, let's do this.


Please keep sending your support-waves my way, although I reached one deadline, the most important work is still to be done! THANKS ;-)