The Calm After the Storm

After a crazy end of the fall semester and an even busier February, I think I'm in a little bit of a lull right now. My classes are going well and pretty much on auto-pilot until finals. I'm working on a couple of writing projects that are close to finished. I'm sure I'll be busy again toward the end of April finishing things up, but it's nice to not feel overwhelmed right now.

I have two papers that are close to being ready to submit to journals. I think. Both of them have been rejected from a conference, one from ICA and one from NCA. The ICA-reject was only partly done at the ICA deadline, so I can kind of understand that one (although I thought it was still good enough to be accepted). The NCA one was almost finished, so I'm a bit confused as to why it didn't get accepted. I'm hoping they will release the reviews soon so I can get any feedback that's useful before sending it to a journal.