Dear everyone:

[maradydd]

Yes, I am ignoring you. September and October are when the early-spring conferences have their deadlines, and I have somewhere between four and six papers to finish between now and Halloween. You do the math. (The research is done, I just have to get it out of my head and my notes and into LaTeX in a form that other people can recognise.) Yes, you can read them, I'll post links to the tech-report versions as they happen. No, there is not much you can do to help, other than leaving me alone, unless you are here to give me a back massage, are going out to pick up food for me so that I don't have to get up, or can send me backward in time. Yes, I miss you. No, I am not dead. Yes, I will be back in touch when I have time to breathe again.

Coffee still works, kind of. I am contemplating alternative delivery mechanisms with better bioavailability.

And I get to do all this over again next April/May for the fall conferences. YAY.

(this post only brought to you by the fact that FC extended their deadline a week.)

Comments

[roadknight.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really want to cut-and-paste this for the past few months of my life too. You just totally nailed it perfectly.

[drcuriosity]

I too feel your pain\ldots{} just knocked off a journal deadline myself. And spent 24 hours of the last 48 without electricity and unable to work on the submission. Gah.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're so head-down, M. Best wishes. And I'm glad you had a chance to make the post -- I was growing mildly antsy, though I was pretty sure I'd hear one way or another if anything Srs was up.

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

I hear really bad things about snorting the free bases of alkaloids, so if you want your caffeine that fast, make sure it's a neutral salt.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rck_/]

Just for once I would like to write a paper based on completely finished research. Usually, we end up doing last-minute retests because of the insights from the writing process.

Anyway, best of luck.