Thursday, November 13, 2008

Score for today:

The good: I almost certainly have a piano teacher lined up for January. (She didn't have any openings now but is virtually certain she will have room for a new student then).

The bad: I got a journal article rejected.

Probably, in the long term scheme of things, the good > the bad, but right now, it feels like the bad >>>> the good.

I need to figure out some kind of new research project to do, that won't cost a mint in research funding, that won't get rejected from a journal once I write it up. Sadly, I don't think such a project exists.

I find academic publishing to be the MOST frustrating thing ever. It makes me feel incompetent like nothing else can.

2 comments:

Chris Laning said...

Did they tell you why? Perhaps it's just what I've heard called "the inelasticity of type" -- a simple lack of space for more articles.

Anonymous said...

OK, I don't know enough about this, but couldn't you submit it to another journal, or doesn't it work that way?

-- Grace in MA