Starting a new job and moving cross country has meant that I haven't worked on my dissertation in approximately seven months. If I had stayed at my former job, I think I would have had a good chance of getting an advisor-approved draft to the committee by the December 1 deadline of 2010. Now my goal is to carve out some time each week in order to meet the December 1, 2011 deadline. Ultimately, I have until December 1, 2013, but I would love to be finish with this project this year -- which would put me on track to graduate in May 2012. We'll see. Currently I am 40% through rounding-up a "zero draft" into a solid "first draft."