R is for Rejection
Alas, I have received my first rejection for a conference paper … they always say you remember your first time at everything and I doubt I will be forgetting my reviewers words anytime soon (wince). I got the email on Friday morning of last week and it has taken everything I’ve got to sit down and write papers all weekend. There is something about having your writing critiqued that doesn’t really give you the gumption to crank out 30 pages of fabulous prose for papers with looming deadlines. Oh well, time to just grin and bear it.
So, to get out of my “you are a miserable human being” funk, I have taken up residence this fine Sunday morning at the new coffee shop in my neighborhood. It is called Thunderbird Coffee and the logo they have reminds me of a pair of silver Thunderbird earrings my Grandmother gave me years ago … they were some my Grandfather had bought her on his first trip ‘Out West’ in the 1940s. Thunderbirds are a common site out there and, in my hometown of El Paso, Texas, the iron deposits in the mountains make the shape of a thunderbird. Fascinating stuff, I know ;).
Ok, back to the real world for now. Time to get papers written, finish my coffee, and quit staring into space. For someone who lives and breathes all things interactive, I find it disconcerting how hard it is to write about the Internet today … I wonder, will it be better by tomorrow? Unfortunately, that will be too late.
Back to burning the mid-day oil for now and cursing my lack of time management skills.