I'm bored...

Hi everyone... so I'm bored, in case you couldn't tell. And I am running out of things to do. I think it's about time to break out a Sudoku puzzle... :) I haven't had the time to do one in ages... but now, I think it will be making a comeback.

I finished the revisions on my review at about 9 this morning (and I started at 8). I knew it wouldn't take long... I just didn't realize it would be THAT quick!! Had I known better, I would have come in later to milk it through the day a bit more. Then again, it probably wouldn't have gone as quickly if I had come in later. Part of the reason that I was able to get through it quickly was because no one was here (except Ange) so people weren't bugging me and chatting with me while I was trying to work. And I was in a good BS'ing mode today... that is always important when you're trying to write!!! LOL Plus, I DID have a lot of the information that I needed to add already written in my dissertation. So I just copied it out and pasted it in the review and added a bit more detail. After all, it's not plagiarism when you copy yourself!!! LOL Besides, it is a virtual guarantee that no one will EVER actually read my dissertation... so I'm not too worried. Anyway, Dawn is going to read it tonight and give it back to me with any revisions tomorrow. We plan on re-submitting it on Friday at the latest. So that should be relatively painless. Let's hope so, at least!! I really want this review to get in this specific journal (AJP) just because ever since a group got a LOX paper into Nature (after attempting to steal my data) there is a lot more excitement about the protein. So I don't want this going to a crappy journal. I know it's not worthy of anything REALLY good... but it shouldn't be in a crappy nothing journal either. I know how good (or not so good) my work is and I know about where it belongs most of the time... and I've put it in lesser crappier journals when it needed to be there. But this is better than that. So we'll see what happens. I'm assuming I won't hear anything else until after I'm gone. That part is kind of a pain since I'll have to do revisions and such from my half-dying computer at home... but what can you do?

Speaking of which... so in the past few weeks, my computer at home has started to make a rattling noise. I have no idea what is causing it or anything else... Mark doesn't know either... but he believes that it is a sign of the impending death of my computer. I can't complain too much... that computer has been good to me. I got it my senior year of undergrad and then it was a rebuild of a friend's computer. So I certainly got my money's worth... it was cheap. :) And it made it through grad school and writing my dissertation, which is all I asked. So now it's on its last legs. Basically, my goal this week and next is to make sure that I have everything off of there and burned on to CD's so that in case it just decides to die, I have all of my information and documents. So that's the plan. Mark and I are currently discussing whether or not it's even worth it to bring the computer to the house or if I should just dump it in the move. He has two computers (a desktop and a laptop) and is willing to add an account for me on both so that I can use them as more than a Guest. (He's a computer guy... I don't actually expect to use his computers under his account... I'd be too worried about screwing something up anyway!) :) But I told him it was up to him to make the final decision since they are his computers, not mine. I fully intend on buying a laptop in the relative near future... but with the house and everything, I want to hold off until I'm sure about my finances and such. So we'll see. But yeah... that is the story on my computer. If it dies this summer before I move then you will notice a drastic stoppage in my blogging (and e-mail) since I won't have access to a computer except at school... and those computers are relatively crappy themselves. Plus, I won't have an office when I'm teaching part-time over the summer and I'm not a big fan of typing e-mails (or blogs) in the freaking mail room/copy room where the general computer is. That would suck. So let's hope that my computer can make it at least to the move... or else that would be sad. :( Poor guy... he's been a good computer. It's not his fault that someone else screwed him up and ended up causing me to have to delete everything on the hard drive and start over from scratch. People who don't understand computers should NOT try to diagnose them or "fix" them. But I digress...

Anyway, that is the excitement, or lack thereof, of my life right now. I have a girls night out planned with Jody, one of the girls at church. It's been a while since we've been able to do anything, mostly because of both of our crazy schedules. But things are finally slowing down a bit for each of us, so we're going out tonight. The plan is to grab dinner and then we'll see how we feel... we might hit the mall or go to a movie or something like that. Or we may just chat over coffee. Either way, I'm sure it will be fun. :)

And until then, I shall be off... I hope that all of you are having a wonderful day... even though it's royally crappy outside. Seriously... is it too much to ask for sunlight?? :P Ahh... the joys of Chicago weather, right? At least it's warm... I shouldn't complain too much!! It could be 30 and snowing! Ick!!

Oky doky pokies, I'm really going now... bye!! :)