Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Papers
I finally got around to addressing the referee comments and resubmitted my paper this afternoon. Fingers crossed they will accept our revisions and reasoning (one of the original comments wanted a whole heap of additional experiments which are not practical with my model and will take ages for no actual improvement of the paper or interpretation of the current more interesting results). Apparently there are a mad load of complicated corrections to do on my other paper but fortunately they all relate to the theory and are for the boss to deal with. Hopefully he will sort them out and get it submitted. I am really hoping that by the time I finish my contract I will have 3 first author papers and a second author paper which will be pretty good going considering everything.
Of course this all relies on me pulling my finger out. The finger was out briefly today but everything else seemed to conspire against me. It took forever (well over an hour) even to get all the apparatus put together and made me waste one of my samples, then when I was actually doing the experiment I realised that one of my stock solutions was missing and I added a much stronger stock solution than I meant to which knobbled the experiment. Then I managed to further knobble it by taking stuff apart before getting everything switched off properly. Still I aim to get in dead early tomorrow so that I can get two experiments done in the day and have some results for my meeting with my boss. There is nothing more motivating than a meeting with my boss when I still haven't got any new data!
Of course this all relies on me pulling my finger out. The finger was out briefly today but everything else seemed to conspire against me. It took forever (well over an hour) even to get all the apparatus put together and made me waste one of my samples, then when I was actually doing the experiment I realised that one of my stock solutions was missing and I added a much stronger stock solution than I meant to which knobbled the experiment. Then I managed to further knobble it by taking stuff apart before getting everything switched off properly. Still I aim to get in dead early tomorrow so that I can get two experiments done in the day and have some results for my meeting with my boss. There is nothing more motivating than a meeting with my boss when I still haven't got any new data!
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