Hiatus until 2009

This will be the last post of 2008. Please check back in January for more.

I was getting ready to post today, and I just realized that I had never posted the success I had finally getting the article accepted that was being held up by the bad reviewer (3 revise and resubmits). I got the acceptance letter right before NCA. Even in the final review, the reviewer recommended against acceptance and had "philosophical problems" with the manuscript, but the editor accepted it anyway. In the meantime, I just did the page proofs for the 11-month review article, which will come out next month. It builds on the first article, but oh well. It's just great to have them both out there.

I've been able to get several things done this week that I just didn't have time for at the end of the semester, and that's a really good feeling. I had been sitting on a manuscript, waiting to submit it to a journal until after the article with the 3 revise and resubmits got accepted. So I took the feedback from NCA where I presented it and sent it off to a journal this week. Then, I revised a draft of the NSF grant that I'm working on. I was supposed to have that to the person at my university that is helping me a couple of weeks ago, but I just couldn't do it until now. I'm still hoping to have it submitted in mid-January.

Now, I'm working a little bit on teaching stuff. I have another new prep in the Spring, and I'd like to have the syllabus and maybe the first day of class done before I leave on "family tour." I'm also working on a paper that I was planning to submit this month, but it will have to wait at least till early January. I had almost run all of the data when I noticed that not all of the data was in my SPSS file. I had surveyed people at several organizations, each of which was stored as a separate Excel file. When I combined Excel files, two of my copy-and-pastes were not complete. So I'm rerunning the statistics. I don't think there are enough missing cases to really change my conclusions, but it's still pretty frustrating. And I need to get reports to those organizations that participated, outlining the overall results and any particulars about their organization. Lots to do in the next few days.

In case no one has said it to you recently, have a happy holiday and a great finish to 2008!