This week I

e-mailed my thesis advisor
read a bunch of articles (I don't remember how many)


Of the current research material left to read I have

five articles
8 books (pieces)
6-8 books chapters I photocopied, maybe three of which I'll use.


Then go photocopy some more articles (about 25-35, I think), and then I get about three or four more books, and then I find some theses in the library, and then that's it. Pretty much half way there.