I'm now in the thesis editing stages: the whole thing is 88,361 words at the time of writing this, including bibliography but excluding another 2000 or so words of footnotes. It's the bibliography and footnotes I'm now working on: I had around seventy or eighty "empty" footnotes at the point at which I finished the first draft of the text, I'm now down to a bit under thirty, and I'm most of the way through compiling the bibliography, but it's slow progress, especially on areas where the literature is rather patchy (engaging with ethnicity/race as topics in a Caucasus medieval context hasn't been done a huge amount).
Today's work included sorting out bibliography stuff relating to the eristaviates (complex only really because I'm referring to more Georgian-language stuff there and knowing if I've read it right is tricky), and also included doing the bibliographies for my sections on race and ethnicity which are quite complex, even just in terms of defining my terms as race and ethnicity are both contested, complex words and I'm far from a specialist on the very wide ranging, multi-field literature that covers them.
I'm also trying to "spin off" a paper from the thesis because I got asked to write something for a Georgian journal and it seemed a good fit, but that's got to be sorted in the next two weeks as well, so things are getting rather hectic.