33 days...

...is the length of time which has elapsed since I first met with my new co-supervisor and rashly promised 4 chapters by the time of my eye op (which I have to check in for in, erm, 7 hours time)

I have just handed the second pair of chapters, which means I've now drafted 54,000 words of PhD, and I estimate I have a further 15-20,000 which can be easily turned into working prose. Not long to go now... perhaps it could even be measured in months.

Meanwhile, now that's out of the way, I can begin fretting about this imminent surgery. This is the first time I'll have been under general anaesthetic since I was three. Yeuch.