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Brain fried
19 March 2009 21:33This week is chaotic and absolutely insane.
At the start of this week I was working on a paper resubmission - we got it back with useful comments, and it needed some work. So I was dedicating my energies to bringing it up to scratch so we could resubmit and hopefully make the referees happy happy.
THEN we got a reply on another paper - it got rejected. However, an opportunity's come up to submit it elsewhere, to a place that sounds positive. The caveat...the paper has to be ready by next week. Given that it was rejected once, I think it's fair to say it needs work. So the last couple of days have been flat-out doing extra work to make it better, and next week is likely to be more of the same. Long days! Plus I am doing tomorrow's lab meeting so had to prepare a presentation on the paper I'm talking about. In general, I'm tired at the moment. Not bored, and not unhappy, but definitely stressed, busy and tired. I get the feeling I don't have a lot of brain left for anything else!
I do sometimes wonder where the first 2 years of my PhD went, cos I'm not entirely sure what proof I have of what happened during them!
Somewhere along the line I was supposed to submit a progress report to my advisory panel, but that's on a backburner for the foreseeable future.
Just wanted to do a toned-down, virtual equivalent of a primal scream! Normal service will resume once these papers are with the journals again!
At the start of this week I was working on a paper resubmission - we got it back with useful comments, and it needed some work. So I was dedicating my energies to bringing it up to scratch so we could resubmit and hopefully make the referees happy happy.
THEN we got a reply on another paper - it got rejected. However, an opportunity's come up to submit it elsewhere, to a place that sounds positive. The caveat...the paper has to be ready by next week. Given that it was rejected once, I think it's fair to say it needs work. So the last couple of days have been flat-out doing extra work to make it better, and next week is likely to be more of the same. Long days! Plus I am doing tomorrow's lab meeting so had to prepare a presentation on the paper I'm talking about. In general, I'm tired at the moment. Not bored, and not unhappy, but definitely stressed, busy and tired. I get the feeling I don't have a lot of brain left for anything else!
I do sometimes wonder where the first 2 years of my PhD went, cos I'm not entirely sure what proof I have of what happened during them!
Somewhere along the line I was supposed to submit a progress report to my advisory panel, but that's on a backburner for the foreseeable future.
Just wanted to do a toned-down, virtual equivalent of a primal scream! Normal service will resume once these papers are with the journals again!
