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I think I might explode with anger and frustration. I have a proposal due next week and I cannot get to work on it because I have to finish two nominations (including writing letters) for colleagues (no, they could not have been done sooner because everyone, including the nominees, waits till the very last fuckin’…
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It’s proposal writing time, which means it’s time for rock blasting through my headphones to help me focus. (Don’t judge.) For your listening pleasure, I recommend two of The Black Keys’ old albums. The 2006 “Magic Potion”… … and the 2004 “Rubber Factory” Again, if you get a chance, see these guys live. They are phenomenal!
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I am in a physical science field, addressing problems by means of theory and computation. I also work a lot with experimentalists. When I write paper or proposals with experimental colleagues, since they all use MS Word, I use it too. I also use MS Word for a lot of small documents (writing homework assignments and tests,…
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I am very tired, it’s been a hellish week; but, something that happened last week remains with me, so I might as well try to purge it through writing, as I have been itching to do. I am sure I wrote about similar experiences before, but here it goes again. I am very impatient and the people who speak…
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I am on my way back from a conference. Yet again I wonder why we spend so much time and money on this stupid conference travel. I got up at 3:40 and I am quite grumpy, so be forewarned. I had an invited talk at this meeting that’s very large and fairly prestigious to be…
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Tomorrow — February 5th — is the 9th World Nutella Day! Nom, slurp, and lick accordingly!
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I recently spent some time with a very junior faculty member at my institution. Young, from a prestigious institution, male. Thinks he has everything figured out. When I tell him what some very explicit requirements for tenure at the university are, he pouts and objects that they are unreasonable (they are not) and that if he…
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I have submitted a paper to a journal that prides itself in rapid turnaround. It’s been a week and no action; it’s sitting on the editorial desk (well, metaphorically; rather in an inbox or a folder of some sort). I am getting really antsy, because they often send out for review within a couple of days…
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As I wrote the other day, Eldest spends a lot of time swimming and the team he is on is very serious and successful. When compared to the best swimmers, he definitely has considerably less experience and his technique needs work. What I know is that he started swimming seriously in September, he’s a little above…
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I saw “Whiplash“. It’s awesome. This is what its IMDB blurb says: “A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.” This movie got me thinking, again, about talent vs hard work, external pressure vs internal drive.…
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