Ugh. This is the time of the semester when everyone is burnt out or on their way to being burnt out. My co-worker Brenda, in an attempt to improve morale, put up a "brag board" outside her lab - we're all supposed to put up either reprints of journal articles that came out recently, or letters for acceptance of articles, or grant award letters or (in Brenda's case) promotion-and-tenure letters.

I have two reprints on the board. Amazingly. It's been a tough couple years for getting papers accepted.