I met with Lucien today to discuss the status of my work. He was quite positive and supportive.
His advice was to put part 3 on the back-burner... concentrate on the essay then back to the major but treat the 3rd component as additional and only work on it after the other two are complete. Good advice... but I agree with him when he said to also check with Kit to confirm... If she agrees, I know I'm on the right path...