February Research Thread

[Parasaurolophus]

New month, new thread.

Monthly goals:

• Write promo blurb for someone's book.
• Finish expanding my translator's introduction for the contracted manuscript.
• Generate a long abstract for a conference presentation.
• Start working on March's conference presentation.

Stretch:

• Finish up that straggling book chapter.

The stretch goal is pretty unlikely; it's a busy month, and I have less time than usual this semester.


Today, I'll work on the blurb and either the abstract or expanding the intro.

[Parasaurolophus]

Wrote about 300 words, plus the blurb and an email to a publisher that I've put off for a bit. Whew.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, polishing up the blurb, starting on the conference abstract, and reading a new thing so I can continue expanding my intro.

[Bbmaj7b5]

Waiting for our newly-accepted paper to show up so that the DOI doesn't lead to a dead link.

[Sun_Worshiper]

February goals:

• Make progress on paper #1 with colleagues - should be submittable soon
• Make progress on paper #2 with colleagues - ball is in colleague's court
• Make progress on paper #3 with colleague - R&R, ball is in colleague's court
• Make progress on book project #1
• Make progress on book project #2 with colleague

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, polishing up the blurb, starting on the conference abstract, and reading a new thing so I can continue expanding my intro.

Sent the blurb, wrote ~400 words, and started on the abstract.

[Parasaurolophus]

Won't have much time today, so will read a bit.

[Parasaurolophus]

Won't have much time today, so will read a bit.

Read a bit, wrote about 500 words. Only 5900 left to go. Though I'm running out of obvious places to expand.

[darkstarrynight]

February Goals

• Write some chapters of my book manuscript
• Work on book chapter due in June with colleague

Today on a train from one city to another I made more progress on reading sources for my book manuscript. I am not back to the U.S. until a week from now so I can hope to finish reading sources by the time I land with trains and long flights in the next week. Then I can get to writing since I will be more organized. The vacation is going well, though!

[Parasaurolophus]

I only have the energy/will to read today.

[Parasaurolophus]

I only have the energy/will to read today.

Did that, and let the emails pile up. Not that I want to deal with them tomorrow, but...

[Parasaurolophus]

Waded through a pile of email crap this morning, which sucked up all my limited time. I had hoped to work on writing up the abstract, but I might just end up reading a bit instead, since I doubt I'll have two free hands.

[Parasaurolophus]

Waded through a pile of email crap this morning, which sucked up all my limited time. I had hoped to work on writing up the abstract, but I might just end up reading a bit instead, since I doubt I'll have two free hands.

Well, I read quite a lot. And wrote about a third of the required abstract.

[Parasaurolophus]

Should try to get the abstract done during my commute today.

[Parasaurolophus]

Should try to get the abstract done during my commute today.

Did a version of it. It'll need polishing, but at least it exists. Also wrote 300 words.