Strangely, my revisions to this chapter are not making it shorter. #academiclife #BookThreeAndOneHalf

Chapter done! Woo-hoo! (Well, aside from revising. And probably more footnotes. But not right now.) #BookThreeAndOneHalf

Amazing how topics resurrect themselves. Haven't had to discuss /Enlightenment sociability since Book One, but now... #BookThreeAndOneHalf

"If I'm bored by these paragraphs, then surely my intended readers will be," I remark, grimly. #BookThreeAndOneHalf

As a break from reading my usual run of bad 19th-c. fiction, I have been reading bad 19th-c. poetry. This has not been a material improvement. #AcademicLife #BookThreeAndOneHalf

Reading a literary annual with multiple contributions from Coleridge, and I have to say that dear S. T. was not exerting himself overmuch there. #AcademicLife #BookThreeAndOneHalf

ME: Woo-hoo! I'm packed.
[I look at the UK WEATHER PREDICTIONS. There will be SNOW.]
ME: ...annnd now I have to squeeze my snow boots in there somehow.
#AcademicLifeWithLongDelayedResearchTrips #BookThreeAndOneHalf

Nothing like realizing that you have a seven-hour layover in JFK on your return trip... #AcademicLifeWithLongDelayedResearchTrips #BookThreeAndOneHalf

Off to the UK tomorrow! Seventeen days in Haworth using the archives at the @BronteParsonage (and nearby towns) plus a week in London at the @britishlibrary. #AcademicLifeWithLongDelayedResearchTrips #BookThreeAndOneHalf