Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yay Brenda!! Happy Scola!
Today is a work holiday so I did not set an alarm. I woke up around 7 but went back to sleep u til about 930. Now I'm tired in that "I slept too long" way that makes me want to just get back in bed and sleep more to be contrary.
I'm gonna see if my boss will let me leave early. Maybe pointing out that all our clients have left for the day will convince him to let me leave.
Too bad he knows I'm an atheist--otherwise I could claim to be all sad that Jesus had died so I could leave early.
Crazytimes.
Hah! It does seem like it. (Says the woman who handles the entire country for her company, which isn't going as well as I would like, but that's another story for another day, because I'm not going to rain on brenda's parade.)
Brenda, great email! Acknowledgement for the work we do is too often in short supply. Glad you are being see and recognized.
Ahhh! Came downstairs, made breakfast, settled in on the couch to catch up on my tivo'd shows...and my tivo seems to be broken! Nooooo! Had to pull the power plug and am waiting 10 minutes but am not hopeful...
Electronics are betraying us. The moon has gone into foo.
I believe in the foo moon. The last two-three days, everyone I work with, including myself, has been struck with the Stupid. Why is it that when I'm overwhelmed and short on both patience and focus, that's when all my authors start doing the most contrary and annoying things?
I believe in the foo moon.
Moth larvae in bedroom
Sick dog
Back door lock broken (don't ask what we've been doing the last few nights to keep the crime wave out)
Leaking freezer
Hella expensive plane tickets
EVERYTHING is in foo. No wonder I had a migraine.
Happy Tom Day!!
Brenda, that's awesome! GO YOU!
that's when all my authors start doing the most contrary and annoying things?
Our authors have to fill out a form -- just a list of ticky boxes, actually -- indicating what roles they played in the authorship (statistics, wrote paper, revised paper, obtained funding, etc.), as well as a place to let us know their conflicts of interest.
Once a week I have a paper with 8-10 authors, 3 of which just went down the list of ticky boxes and checked them all, so that's what gets listed in the manuscript. Then they review the manuscript and lose their tiny little minds that we said Dr. Jackass was responsible for statistics and YOU MUST REMOVE HIS NAME NOW. Our standard reply is "Dr. Jackass checked that box on the authorship form, which we will send back to you so that he may revise it to indicate his correct contribution to the paper." Which really means "Fuck you and your slack-ass non-list-reading co-author."