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Academic publishing runs on its own schedule, Part 2

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Outrage, Whining on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As if sitting on our article for years (literally – nearly 3 years, see my first post on this topic) and then complaining that the lit review was out of date (well, DUH), the editors of the journal had the AUDACITY to send us an email less than 2 weeks after they sent us the [...]

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Academic publishing runs on its own schedule

Posted in Being a scholar, Education policy, Rants, Research, Whining, Writing on July 4, 2010 | Comments Off

3 years ago my chair and I presented a paper at the premier conference in our field. We took the comments, modified the paper and submitted it to a journal. <crickets chirping> A year later we heard that the journal had gone through a couple of “changes” and wanted to know if we wanted our [...]

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Struggling to keep moving forward: Whining and musings

Posted in Graduate school, History, Whining on September 8, 2008 | Comments Off

When I was working half time and taking classes two classes at a time was no big deal. Now that I’m working full time, however, I am really struggling to keep up. At the request of my chair, I am currently taking a course on Historical Research Methods and another on Historiography that he feels [...]

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To sleep, perchance to dream… Or not.

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Graduate school, Other, Whining on January 28, 2008 | Comments Off

I went to bed at 11:30 last not. Not only was I up every hour, all night, I remember seeing the vast majority of that time pass. I don’t know that I slept at all. If I did, it was only a few minutes at a time. My head is fuzzy. Which is making it [...]

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It had to happen eventually….

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Whining on January 15, 2008 | Comments Off

“We received an unexpectedly high number of proposals, and we simply could not accommodate all of the people who submitted papers. We are writing to relay the unfortunate news that although your project was of great interest to us, after much discussion, we have decided to decline to accept it for presentation at the conference.” [...]

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The best laid plans….

Posted in Academic life, Other, Whining on January 13, 2008 | Comments Off

Fall apart in the face of a migraine. How was today supposed to go? Up between 8 and 9 Go for a bike ride (exercise) Shower At my desk and working by 11 Lots of time to get things done… How today is ACTUALLY going? Lay in bed with covers over head until12:30 Shower Put [...]

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Things that are making me cranky today….

Posted in Jobs, Politics, Religion, Whining, news on December 7, 2007 | Comments Off

There are a great number of things making me cranky today. Here’s a summary: Mitt Romney’s speech and the religious pandering of all the candidates. (I love this summary, and hate what it means for the country.) The imminent mortgage bail-out for those who overextended themselves, but only the ones that timed it right (so [...]

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All good things….

Posted in Graduate school, Whining on November 13, 2007 | Comments Off

… must come to an end. No, not this blog. My cushy part-time contracting job in my old career that has been paying the bills while I was in school. Prior to deciding to change careers I had a well=paying career in IT. I’m very good at that work. But it is boring, unchallenging, and [...]

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