I finally submitted my manuscript to an academic journal on Wednesday! It's been almost a year since I defended my thesis and, while it needed some work before sending it to a journal, it really shouldn't have taken me this long. Yes, I started a new job that I like and have been putting a lot of effort into, but what did I do with all the time I had on nights and weekends?
Now I play the waiting game. Hopefully the editor doesn't deflect it from being sent out to peer reviewers (it has its weaknesses but I don't think it's that bad, and I'd hope that Noelle, Nancy, and Stacey wouldn't have encouraged me to submit it if it wouldn't at least get to the peer review stage). There's still a healthy amount of fear, though, from thinking that people who are experts in the field are going to be picking apart my work. I'm crossing my fingers for a "revise & resubmit."
In other good news, I found out that Noelle submitted a revised version of the caregiving paper I helped her out with in grad school (of which I am second author). She's published her fair share of articles in the past, so I'm hoping at the very least that that paper gets published. I always wanted to be an author when I was growing up and, while this work is academic and not exactly the genre my dreams were made of, getting my name in print would be like fulfilling a childhood fantasy.
-KP
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
-George Nada, They Live
Friday, May 23, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Is it Friday yet?
Today was been chock full of weird. It started off well, if not early. I have SAS training downtown for two days so I took the Metra down early. This is the third training course I've taken and I've made a bit of a routine for the mornings. Class doesn't start until 9am but I still take the 6:30am train so I can grab some coffee and go wandering around. Looking at all the architecture, plus all the people watching, make these some pretty fun mornings. The last time I was downtown, however, I ran into the cast of Reno 911! (in character!) promoting their movie and didn't have my camera on me. No celebrities this time, but I did take a few snapshots while wandering around Millenium Park.
Ok, not so weird just yet, right?
Let's backtrack a bit, then. On the way downtown, the person sitting behind me was absolutely blaring Phil Collins on her iPod while snoring up something fierce! I felt like I was going to go into auditory overload. Ok, maybe that's more annoying than weird.
How about this? Shortly after class began, I find out that my boss at work is accepting another position with the company. Now we are down one employee and our boss. As the Mutant Enemy monster would say, "Grr! Argg!"
Remember that trip to Maui Molly and I took because Mike had the hookup? It turns out that someone I was an RA with in the dorms stayed in the exact same house a month or so prior because she also has a brother-in-law that works for The Alexander Company. Talk about a small world.
Onto a little less weird and a little more good--the paper is as proofread as its going to get. I'm printing it out Wednesday and stopping at the post office after work. Peer review, here we come! Can I get some fingers crossed, please? I know I've redefined procrastination, but it'd be nice if this wasn't rejected outright.
Or how about a little less good news and a little more bad? It's 9:45pm and Molly is still at work.
-KP
"The land down under. We're gonna get drunk with Russell Crowe and head-butt some goddamn kangaroos."
-Ari Gold, Entourage
Ok, not so weird just yet, right?
Let's backtrack a bit, then. On the way downtown, the person sitting behind me was absolutely blaring Phil Collins on her iPod while snoring up something fierce! I felt like I was going to go into auditory overload. Ok, maybe that's more annoying than weird.
How about this? Shortly after class began, I find out that my boss at work is accepting another position with the company. Now we are down one employee and our boss. As the Mutant Enemy monster would say, "Grr! Argg!"
Remember that trip to Maui Molly and I took because Mike had the hookup? It turns out that someone I was an RA with in the dorms stayed in the exact same house a month or so prior because she also has a brother-in-law that works for The Alexander Company. Talk about a small world.
Onto a little less weird and a little more good--the paper is as proofread as its going to get. I'm printing it out Wednesday and stopping at the post office after work. Peer review, here we come! Can I get some fingers crossed, please? I know I've redefined procrastination, but it'd be nice if this wasn't rejected outright.
Or how about a little less good news and a little more bad? It's 9:45pm and Molly is still at work.
-KP
"The land down under. We're gonna get drunk with Russell Crowe and head-butt some goddamn kangaroos."
-Ari Gold, Entourage
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Kermit was right...
...it's not easy being green.
At least, it takes a little more thought and effort than the normal routine. I should say that the environment has become increasingly important to me over the last couple of years, where it never used to really phase me. There's only a finite amount of space and resources on this Earth (I have opinions on overpopulation, too, but will save that blog for a rainy day) and I feel that we, as a people and as a society, need to start acting responsibly.
In the last six months or so Molly and I have started using reusable shopping bags, buying the energy efficient light bulbs, and buying any cleaner that Seventh Generation makes. It's not much, but it's a start.
One can argue that "buying green" correlates with a skinnier wallet, but that's a choice I've accepted and am okay with. The hard part, I feel, is mastering the reusable shopping bag. Molly and I are batting a thousand on our regular shopping trips to Jewel, but we forget to bring the bags every time should we pick up a few things next door at the the Garden Fresh Market (where they seem to put every individual item in its very own plastic bag) or if we go to Target. Granted, we recycle whatever plastic bags we accumulate but, still... it seems that getting into the habit of "being green" is the hardest part about it.
-KP
"Kristen's cute in that 'I wanna marry you so I could divorce you someday' kind of way."
-Johnny Drama, Entourage
At least, it takes a little more thought and effort than the normal routine. I should say that the environment has become increasingly important to me over the last couple of years, where it never used to really phase me. There's only a finite amount of space and resources on this Earth (I have opinions on overpopulation, too, but will save that blog for a rainy day) and I feel that we, as a people and as a society, need to start acting responsibly.
In the last six months or so Molly and I have started using reusable shopping bags, buying the energy efficient light bulbs, and buying any cleaner that Seventh Generation makes. It's not much, but it's a start.
One can argue that "buying green" correlates with a skinnier wallet, but that's a choice I've accepted and am okay with. The hard part, I feel, is mastering the reusable shopping bag. Molly and I are batting a thousand on our regular shopping trips to Jewel, but we forget to bring the bags every time should we pick up a few things next door at the the Garden Fresh Market (where they seem to put every individual item in its very own plastic bag) or if we go to Target. Granted, we recycle whatever plastic bags we accumulate but, still... it seems that getting into the habit of "being green" is the hardest part about it.
-KP
"Kristen's cute in that 'I wanna marry you so I could divorce you someday' kind of way."
-Johnny Drama, Entourage
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Randomnicity (05.07.08 Edition)
It's time for a little bit of randomnicity.
1) Molly and I rented Across The Universe the other weekend. I think the Beatles are perhaps the greatest thing to happen to music ever so I was a little hesitant on using their music as the basis for a musical. In all serious, though? Great flick (few qualms). Great music. I don't usually like covers of the Beatles, but I am a big fan of this soundtrack.
2) Where is #2?
3) ZOMG! I want to believe!
4) I like Colin Meloy's CD.
5) This weekend marks the first weekend we've stayed in the IL in, like, 5 weeks. I welcome visitors. Visitors, please visit.
6) I'm becoming a big fan of Entourage.
7) I am thisclose! to submitting my thesis to an academic journal. I just need to write the abstract and proofread one more time.
8) Can you believe I've worked at Nielsen for almost a year?
9) I have been spending too much money on comics recently.
10) I topped $40 to fill my Civic with gas for the first time yesterday--$43, to be exact. And that was at $3.79/gal. It's $3.95 today. Christ.
-KP
"But who the hell is shooting at us, mom? Terrorists?"
"Worse... Republicans."
-Y: The Last Man
1) Molly and I rented Across The Universe the other weekend. I think the Beatles are perhaps the greatest thing to happen to music ever so I was a little hesitant on using their music as the basis for a musical. In all serious, though? Great flick (few qualms). Great music. I don't usually like covers of the Beatles, but I am a big fan of this soundtrack.
2) Where is #2?
3) ZOMG! I want to believe!
4) I like Colin Meloy's CD.
5) This weekend marks the first weekend we've stayed in the IL in, like, 5 weeks. I welcome visitors. Visitors, please visit.
6) I'm becoming a big fan of Entourage.
7) I am thisclose! to submitting my thesis to an academic journal. I just need to write the abstract and proofread one more time.
8) Can you believe I've worked at Nielsen for almost a year?
9) I have been spending too much money on comics recently.
10) I topped $40 to fill my Civic with gas for the first time yesterday--$43, to be exact. And that was at $3.79/gal. It's $3.95 today. Christ.
-KP
"But who the hell is shooting at us, mom? Terrorists?"
"Worse... Republicans."
-Y: The Last Man
We All Tube For YouTube: Super Hero Edition
Thanks to Gal Pal Jessie Moore (TM) for this find...
-KP
"There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them disarm with minimal contact. Three of them kill. The other-- [KRAKK] --hurts."
-Batman, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
-KP
"There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them disarm with minimal contact. Three of them kill. The other-- [KRAKK] --hurts."
-Batman, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
Monday, May 5, 2008
We All Tube For YouTube: Conchords Edition
It may be the most quotable TV show ever. That's right--ever!
Robots (Live)
Frodo, Don't Wear The Ring
Business Time
-KP
"Hey Bret, do you like penguins?"
"Um, yeah, nah not really."
"Sometimes I'm glad we don't live in New Zealand anymore, cos of all those penguins. Remember Bret, how there used to be all those penguins?"
-Jemaine & Bret, Flight of the Conchords
Robots (Live)
Frodo, Don't Wear The Ring
Business Time
-KP
"Hey Bret, do you like penguins?"
"Um, yeah, nah not really."
"Sometimes I'm glad we don't live in New Zealand anymore, cos of all those penguins. Remember Bret, how there used to be all those penguins?"
-Jemaine & Bret, Flight of the Conchords
We All Tube For YouTube: BL Edition
I watch way too much frakkin' television. It's a possible addiction (second to my growing comic book addiction, but that's a separate blog). While I don't obsess over Boston Legal like I do certain other shows (*coughs* Lost *coughs*), it's consistently LOL-TV. After all, not many shows break the fourth wall nowadays, and it doesn't hurt that personal favorites James Spader and the Shat Man star in it. But also? The political commentary is great. Check it:
-KP
"You know what? You knock fifteen hundred dollars off the price right now and I'll take it off your hands. It's gotta be now. Seal the deal. Let's do this thing. Three, two, one. Five, four, three, two, one. Now! Now! Now! Say it! Do it! Now! Do it now! Do it! Shake my hand! You will sell me this car! Shake my hand!"
"Yeah! Alright!"
-Dwight & Andy, The Office
-KP
"You know what? You knock fifteen hundred dollars off the price right now and I'll take it off your hands. It's gotta be now. Seal the deal. Let's do this thing. Three, two, one. Five, four, three, two, one. Now! Now! Now! Say it! Do it! Now! Do it now! Do it! Shake my hand! You will sell me this car! Shake my hand!"
"Yeah! Alright!"
-Dwight & Andy, The Office
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