April Research

[traductio]

Ugh.

I've just discovered that I've published not one but two articles with a graph describing the percentage breakdown of different elements over the course of fifty years, where -- for reasons I'm now trying to discover -- every single year adds up to somewhere between 137% and 139%.

How. The. Heck.

Double ugh.

In my spreadsheet, I had used a comma instead of a colon for a SUM function. I'm awfully embarrassed. (Although four peer reviewers missed that, too -- I'm not sure whether that's encouraging that I'm not alone or discouraging that we could all miss something so clearly wrong.)

[mamselle]

OH, dear. Yes.

I remember being up until 3 AM trying to get stuff right in tables like that.

No fun and exasperating when it's something so seemingly small and insignificant--except, of course, when it's not.

Sympathies, tea, (or some other soothing beverage) and good thoughts....do you have to send revisions to the previously-published ones?

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My update: I'm getting a bit further on the Ppt but need to do more .

Taking a break for a moment to do due diligence on the article for a bit, then back to the dictionaries....du Cange, OED, Pauly-Wissowa and DACL, among others.

At least most of them are online.

M. 

[traductio]

OH, dear. Yes.

I remember being up until 3 AM trying to get stuff right in tables like that.

No fun and exasperating when it's something so seemingly small and insignificant--except, of course, when it's not.

Sympathies, tea, (or some other soothing beverage) and good thoughts....do you have to send revisions to the previously-published ones?

Fortunately, it appears (contrary to how I remembered things) that that specific graph didn't make the cut for article number 2, so it's only in one place. It doesn't change my argument in article number 1 (the trend I was describing was there regardless of my inability to describe it well), so I'll have to figure out whether to follow up with the journal or let it fade into oblivion.

[Parasaurolophus]

Ugh.

I've just discovered that I've published not one but two articles with a graph describing the percentage breakdown of different elements over the course of fifty years, where -- for reasons I'm now trying to discover -- every single year adds up to somewhere between 137% and 139%.

How. The. Heck.

Nooooooo!

[mamselle]

Talons, fingers, and other digits crossed for the simplest, swiftest answer to arise.

Meanwhile, more note revisions done on the article, back to the Ppt.

M.

[mamselle]

Talons, fingers, and other digits crossed for the simplest, swiftest answer to arise.

Meanwhile, more note revisions done on the article, back to the Ppt.

M.

Got good reading started for the newer section (older section recaps an earlier article) and 3 slides worked up.

Tired. Bed. AM-- more to do!

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Some writing and reading today. Gotta set myself up to finish the section tomorrow.

Finished the reading, did some preliminary writing. Lotsa writing to be done tomorrow, though.

[mamselle]

Getting further along, more to do. Might edit another 14 lines out of the endnotes, reduce anothrr page that way.

Onwards, etc...

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I'd very much like to finish this section today. That means writing ~1500-1800 words.

[mamselle]

I also did another small bit on the day-by-day short piece I'm working on for friends in France on MSs here that are from there.

I'll work on it more in depth later, it's just a daily "put down a few sentences" for now.

M.

[traductio]

I'd very much like to finish this section today. That means writing ~1500-1800 words.

That many words in a day is a monster number for me. (Any day I hit 1000 is an impressive day.)

Good luck!

[mamselle]

Another page's worth of extra lines in footnotes removed.

One chocolate truffle.

Bed.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I'd very much like to finish this section today. That means writing ~1500-1800 words.

It took 2100, and it's not fantastic, but it's done!

That many words in a day is a monster number for me. (Any day I hit 1000 is an impressive day.)

Good luck!

Thanks! I'm pretty quick, even hen-pecking one-handed. But whether all those words are any good is another matter. I edit things forever.

[mamselle]

Another page's worth of extra lines in footnotes removed.

One chocolate truffle.

Bed.

M.

Well, almost. I had to put all that good reading and note-taking yesterday and this afternoon to some use.

Another two slides fixed, a bit, at least, and a table re-adjusted backwards to include earlier references.

NOW, bed.

(Ate the chocolate truffle already, anyway....)

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Newslettering this morning, then starting the reading for the penultimate section.