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It’s been slow. I’ve been waiting and waiting for a response to my article submissions. I have a horrible feeling that, after the revisions, it’ll go back to reviewers and I’ll have to wait more. My adviser laughs it off, but I guess that’s because he’s got three other articles out and if one doesn’t make it into the Lancet of chemistry it’ll be no big deal… STILL. The paranoia is making it hard to work. I’m going to self medicate tonight with Dr. Jim Beam’s elixir of amnesia . Maybe that’ll help. If anyone knows Eric Anslyn, please keep him in a good mood.
Ahem. Look! Paul has posted something.
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Sorry to hear about the waiting, Kyle. I do love the pic, though!
Just to clarify, the Chinese means only “women area”…
In Japanese, however, the character means “world”.
Yeah, I felt the same way about the latest JCAS paper before that got rejected for not being sufficiently awesome. When clearly, our esteemed enemy (er… colleague) has been publishing stuff that wasn’t as awesome for the past several years in JCAS. I know this for a fact because I am an expert in my field and can tell these things.
Now I might say bitterly it’s because they are more famous and they get treated better (I should know, because I fall all over myself to say nice things about this group myself normally), but I guess this is a small sample size and it tends to even itself out over a larger sample. So I’ll just let it go… And I will focus on Andjewandte from now on.
Also the last article from the colleague’s group obviously got rejected by JCAS and ended up in a smaller journal (not my favorite journal in our field though — maybe they can read my mind). It was obviously written for JCAS at first from the formatting. It’s not that bad of an article this time actually, but probably wouldn’t have made it into JCAS if it came from me; not a chance in hell. Still… heh heh! Schadenfreude. So sweet.
I bet I’m going to be held up at gunpoint later tonight for being such an anonymous asshole to them. Ah the pleasures of living in a city where these things happen. Unlike my enemy! No, I would never be held up at gunpoint if I went to grad-school at their university! Arrgghhhh!!!
Right, better take out half of my ID and only carry around a 20. You don’t want to piss off the robbers by having nothing, and 20-30 bucks is not such a big loss.
It’d be awesome if that sign pointed to the kitchen.
/ba-zing
this blogs going to get a name for itself…
This is me admonishing you.
Uncle Al is ashamed of you all. JACS credits, JACS credit arbitrage! To reduce chemists’ JACS footprints each ACS-certified BS/Chem will be issued 20 JACS lifetime publication rights. If you want more you must barter some from unproductive colleagues. Literature pollution will be ended! PowerPoint presentation to follow in a semi-retarded Southern accent (Uncle Al’s thinking Huell Howser rather than the ob(li)vious). Save the JACS! FOR OUR CHILDREN!
Bring back the Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Letters. The literature needs a basement.
eric anslyn is the last person u shd be worried about…there r worser imposters like krische in utexas!!
Eric Anslyn is one of the finest chemists in the world. He also has an ass kickity book. I do give Anslyn TWO ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP for his contributions to chemistry and my career. *wink*
poorly worded from my side(more a reflection on krische than anslyn)…anslyn is a fine chemist as u said…and also a gentleman(a rare combo)….i was one of the b-testers for the book.:)
Don’t forget the super duper Dougherty. And also Anslyn and Breslow’s negative rate constants
you know you have to get the ball rolling here on the topic of the nobel prize….
maybe a full post/odds and such on the Wednesday’s winner
Who cares about the nobel prize? I prefer to be surprised, plus it happens once a year and you get to read all about it in CEN news the week after. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about guessing who wins, especially since I’m unfamiliar with half of chemistry to make any intelligent predictions. I just know the good people in my half, and any of them would make for fine reading in CEN two weeks from now.
Oh here, I’ll make a prediction. I bet you no one from my esteemed institution will win it. At least… not in chemistry.