June writing challenge

[darkstarrynight]

Worked more on long neglected paper this morning!

Goals for the rest of June

• Finish long neglected paper draft by June 30th - thankful for my patient colleague
• Edit draft with superstar and rising star
• Finish slides for presentation in first week of July
• Help colleague start the process of creating an article from her dissertation

Did a ton on long-neglected paper today and sent my co-author a list of things I need help addressing.
I also finished reviewing a manuscript I had put on my calendar to do in July, so that was an unexpected bonus.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today:

• One last look at Book Proposal.
• Iron out the remaining kink's in April Paper.

And then, I'd better get a move on my pile of marking.

Job well done. I haven't drummed up the courage to send the proposal yet, but I'll do it tomorrow and count it as a task accomplished.

[ergative]

Minimum goals for today:

-Figure out what's up with that weird mismatch in KLD values
-Update that table so it matches the new analysis

Ideal extra goals:

-Clean up and comment all the extra code
-Create readme file for the code
-Finish up the 'appendix/additional materials' document
-Put it all in an OSF repository


Fortunately, the sourdough I baked this morning came out very nicely.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today:

• Submit Book Proposal.
• Return to Co-Authored Paper 2, to clean up and co-ordinate

And either:

• Work on July Paper, or
• Return to Foggy Paper.

I might give up on July Paper. I'm not sure I actually have anything worth saying. Or maybe I do. I'll have to see.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today:

• Submit Book Proposal.
• Return to Co-Authored Paper 2, to clean up and co-ordinate[/li]
  

And either:

• Work on July Paper, or
• Return to Foggy Paper.

I might give up on July Paper. I'm not sure I actually have anything worth saying. Or maybe I do. I'll have to see.

[Sun_Worshiper]

June goals:

• Finalize and submit paper to journal
• Make revisions to R&R and resubmit
• Make progress on other R&R (hope to resubmit in July or August)
• Make progress on paper with coauthors (hope to submit in July or August)

Reach goals (not priorities, but things that I could work on if everything else miraculously gets done ahead of schedule):

• Begin work on new project
• Complete IRB for project in development
• Figure out how to deal with rejected paper that I hate, with coauthor

Looks like I won't get that first paper under review this month, due to a major data snag that came along.  Fortunately, I think I've solved it and should be able to get it out in early July.  On the other hand, the first of those R&Rs, which was in its third round turned into an acceptance.

[mamselle]

It's Sunday.  So far:

1. Finish at least one Ppt to replace tours this summer (colonial children's activities about 1/2 done, have to record videos yet).
        - Still more work done in the past 3 days inserting slides for activities (making a sampler, writing with a quill, etc.) Still more to do.
        - More done on theother 2 Ppts; text added from handouts, started inserting pix Starting to come up with a process.
        - Still need to call city to find out if/when/how a videographer and I could visit the sites long enough to make the films needed.
        - Will then have to figure out how to import those to the Ppts, do voice-overs, and start putting them up.
        - PR? Can't hang signs out this year...hmmm...creativity called for; tweets, etc. for a start.

2. 3 paras done more to go on French medieval thingy to get the "rough marble shape" Michaelangelo says we carve out the articles from.
        - Maybe tomorrow, I'll get a draft roughed out.

3. "Day job" formatting of sendouts, match visuals to projected email campaign texts (1 started), 1 article edited for next e-magazine issue.
        - First sendout in process; Email campaign formatted, awaiting review OK'd, sent. Articles next.

Crawling along, but some progress made, aiming for Sat. July2 deadline for no. 1.

Students back this week; will need to keep up low-level maintenance work each AM.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Month's goals:

• Finalize and submit June Paper (due in July).
• Write a draft of July Paper (due in late July).
• Finish and submit Book Proposal.
• Fix up and submit one other extant paper.

There's been plenty of progress on the other two, but not enough for them to be done. Still, I'm happy enough with the progress.

Today, once I'm done with all the marking, I'll start reading a friend's book, which promises to be pretty fun. I figure I can finish it in June/early on Wednesday.

[ergative]

Good job, Parasaurolophus! Progress is great, even if you can't cross something off the list.

Here's my progress! You may recall that this was also my list from the middle of freaking last week.

Minimum goals for today:

Figure out what's up with that weird mismatch in KLD values  Woo hoo! But now I need to rerun the entire analysis, which will take literally weeks, so none of the rest will be happening today.
-Update that table so it matches the new analysis

Ideal extra goals:

-Clean up and comment all the extra code
-Create readme file for the code
-Finish up the 'appendix/additional materials' document
-Put it all in an OSF repository

[mamselle]

Soooo.....sounds like a serious error that caused the mismatch, not just a glitch?

Sorry to hear that....no fun at all.

I suppose the only good news is that you found it before a reviewer did.

M.

[ergative]

Soooo.....sounds like a serious error that caused the mismatch, not just a glitch?

Sorry to hear that....no fun at all.

I suppose the only good news is that you found it before a reviewer did.

M.

Yes, it was both a serious and stupid error---and, oddly, I don't think it will affect the results all that much.  I don't think a reviewer would have found it, though. It was buried deep, deep deep in my analysis code, and may have gone unnoticed forever unless someone looked at my code and tried to replicate or build on it. It does go to show, though, that it always serves to hand-check a selection of your script outputs to make sure that it's doing what you think it's doing; and it also goes to show how wise my co-author was in insisting that we include the table that, in building, served to hand-check the output of the script and highlight the error.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, once I'm done with all the marking, I'll start reading a friend's book, which promises to be pretty fun. I figure I can finish it in June/early on Wednesday.

17% done. I imagine I can probably finish reading it tomorrow. It's just such a pleasure to read!

[Parasaurolophus]

It's not writing (yet!), so it hardly counts, but today's goal is to get as close to finishing that book as I can.

[darkstarrynight]

Worked more on long neglected paper this morning!

Goals for the rest of June

• Finish long neglected paper draft by June 30th - thankful for my patient colleague
• Edit draft with superstar and rising star
• Finish slides for presentation in first week of July
• Help colleague start the process of creating an article from her dissertation

Did a ton on long-neglected paper today and sent my co-author a list of things I need help addressing.
I also finished reviewing a manuscript I had put on my calendar to do in July, so that was an unexpected bonus.

Long neglected paper is getting close but will not meet my mythical June 30th deadline. However, I think we can get it submitted to a journal in July which is great! The draft slides are ready for the presentation next week and my co-presenter and I meet tomorrow to review and then have a "walk through" for our presentation with the host on Thursday.

[Parasaurolophus]

It's not writing (yet!), so it hardly counts, but today's goal is to get as close to finishing that book as I can.

Well, I didn't finish it, because some stuff intruded (including a second set of proofs for an article), but that's OK. I'll finish it soon. It's also suddenly morphed into an invited book review (which is fine, since I'm reading it anyway), so I guess there'll be a writing task attached.

I also managed to accrue another commitment to referee a paper. This will be my twentieth (plus one book proposal and one book manuscript), which is a nice little landmark. Phew! July will be busy after all!

But tomorrow is a holiday, since it's Canada Day/the day I used to know as Moving Day.