In the past three weeks:

• I met with my tutor twice, and got familiarity ratings for the stimulus list, plus a few possible stories. At least for younger speakers, it will apparently be easier to just translate the story from Standard Mandarin on the fly than to try to read the unfamiliar characters of idiomatic Wuyu. The stimulus list does have a few items that are unfamiliar to the informant, possibly not used at all in Jinhua.
• I translated the next couple sections of 南部吴语. When I went to check some statements there with the wordlist, I realized that 南部吴语 and the dictionary disagree about what happened to tone IIB obstruent-onset syllables. 南部吴语 says that all tone IIB syllables merged into tone IIA in Jinhua and Lanxi, but the dictionary indicates that many if not most obstruent-initial syllables are pronounced with tone IIIB. The dictionary introduction says this is the case for literary pronunciation, and that casual pronunciation renders them as tone IIA, but I thought the dictionary pronunciations were going for casual speech. At minimum, it suggests that some obstruent-initial tokens could behave differently than the sonorant-onset tokens, in sandhi if not in citation form.
• I did also spend some time listening to 二十分可乐, and more time hanging out with friends who speak the local dialect with each other.

In the next couple weeks:

• I need to decide on a stimulus list. I have collected some possible alternatives from the dictionary, but not for all the gaps, particularly if tone IIB obstruents and sonorants do not behave the same. I also still am not sure of the original source of the stimulus list, and know of no alternative lists. I hope to meet with a Chinese student studying Ningbo dialect and/or the professor who was doing dialect research. And I need to check the alternative words with a couple native speakers.
• I’d like to finish a couple more sections of 南部吴语.
• But two weeks from now, my parents are visiting and we’re doing a wedding the day they get here, so things will be a bit busy.