I just noticed that Academic Monkey mentioned, in the comments to the Labor Day post, finishing a book manuscript a day or so ago. I know we're all about the misery, and I know plenty of other people here have published books, but I still think that deserves congratulations, so -- congratulations, Monkey!
Feel free to add your own congratulations below, and/or to report on anything you accomplished recently, academic or otherwise, that brightened your perspective, at least for a little while.
I'll start: I managed to finish and send off an article to a journal a few weeks ago, and got a note back from the editor saying that it's been sent out for peer review -- a simple and very ordinary transaction, I know, and one about which I'm hardly going to brag to my TT colleagues who do this regularly, but I'm still feeling quite pleased, even if it's taken me nearly a decade after my PhD to get this far (in my defense, there was a good deal of additional archival research involved, and I'm hoping to be able to pick up the pace a bit now that I've got a fair amount of that research accomplished. Maybe I'll even get to the point of emulating Monkey's accomplishment one of these days. )
So, anybody else want to share a moment of non-misery, or, as Lex put it in the same thread, "Unalienated Labor"?
Hey Congrats, Cassandra! I know there's a lot of work ahead of us both -- my editor will surely give me 100 points to change, and your blind reviewers will probably have their own advice -- but it's soooo refreshing to get that milestone of a rough draft finished and sent off.
ReplyDeleteGood timing too: today my first day of classes left no time for any extra work!
Awesome, my first CM citation! I have so many people to thank.
ReplyDeleteThat is exciting, Academic Monkey!!! And Contingent Cassandra! Woot woot!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to have a publication coming out this Fall... which students won't believe that I managed to write without a summer off and a full load of teaching and admin duties last year (and same students wonder why I think they're full of shit when they whine that they're taking 3 classes and working 'really' hard and, therefore, didn't have time to write a one-page summary).
@ Lex, you gotta start with the Lord Jesus Christ, don't you know? :o)
ReplyDeleteI started teaching my first college class last week. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't any of you warn me that there's actual work and preparation that goes into it beyond just showing up and talking? What a miserable lot you are. :)
Congrats Monkey, Cassandra, and Contemplative! That's awesome! I myself had my first journal article published this past month and got a phone call about presenting those findings at a highly prestigious national organization next month.....would feel cocky, but as adjunct/junior faculty member, too worried about playing catch up with the class work......just finished my third and final syllabus.
ReplyDeleteI'm going somewhere exciting and glamorous to give a talk!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all! For a bunch of people who spend too much time complaining on the internet, we've managed to be pretty productive.
ReplyDeleteI will *always* congratulate the writer who has finished her or his manuscript. Good on ya Academic Monkey, Contingent Cassandra, and Contemplative Cynic! Be kind to your editors, please. Not the one you have to suck up to, the one who actually edits your words.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all, including Sawyer. Of course it counts to start teaching. Best of luck! If I'd had CM to vent to and consult during my first year of teaching, it would have been so much better.
ReplyDeleteMaybe one reason we share the misery is that we do spend a lot of time preparing our classes, only to have students behave as if we're vending machines or TVs.