{"id":389,"date":"2005-10-06T06:47:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2005-10-06T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T10:47:49","slug":"productivity-in-the-midst-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Productivity in the midst of chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sdorn\/140088.html\">car adventure yesterday<\/a> (what?  a link to my personal blog? oh, well&#151;the secret&#8217;s out for all 1.273510&#8230; readers), it turns out I wasn&#8217;t half-bad in the productivity department.  I sent out a rejection notice (which required piecing together a picture from five reviews), loaded the new version of SAS on my work laptop, started looking at Florida 1999-2000 and 2000-01 data for the attrition\/graduation analysis, edited materials for one class&#8217;s interview project, and a few other odds and ends.  I&#8217;m behind on reading some revisions for EPAA, as well as other things (it&#8217;s an eternal job, so I&#8217;m very glad it&#8217;s enjoyable), but we have an article to come out tomorrow, and the following one is mostly put together (need feedback from the author), so that&#8217;s in pretty good shape.  I need to do some union stuff in the next day, teach, pick up my son and then take everyone and the toad to the vet for an afternoon appointment.  And I&#8217;m sure there are other things as well that&#8217;s not currently in mind.<br \/>\nThis is why I try not to keep to-do lists in my head (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/moodeuce.blogspot.com\">A.G. Rud<\/a>, and that&#8217;s credit for helping, not responsibility for my absent-mindedness).<br \/>\nOh, and there&#8217;s an interesting e-mail correspondence that&#8217;s come from my union e-mail newsletter item about academic freedom.  I wish it included the administration, but you can&#8217;t have everything that&#8217;s sensible in life.  More later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Added later<\/em>:  Hmmmn&#8230; I didn&#8217;t intend to give off the impression that writing a rejection letter for a journal was productive in itself&#151;more a matter that any letter that isn&#8217;t an outright acceptance requires some care in giving guidance to the author(s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my car adventure yesterday (what? a link to my personal blog? oh, well&#151;the secret&#8217;s out for all 1.273510&#8230; readers), it turns out I wasn&#8217;t half-bad in the productivity department. I sent out a rejection notice (which required piecing together a picture from five reviews), loaded the new version of SAS on my work laptop, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}