Draft: DONE!

16 September 2025: Finished a draft of my half of the "Year's Work" essay late this afternoon and man, that feels great. Next step is editing and revising, then swapping halves with my co-writer. I think I got myself more worked up about being behind than I needed to, but that's just because chunks of time I ahd assumed I could use for writing got swallowed up in the first few weeks of the semester. 

But our deadline to submit to each other is October 1, so I've got two weeks left on my end--and will probably send it to my co-author pretty soon. 

The deadline for us to submit to the journal is October 15. We've got this and that feels good.