{"id":1154,"date":"2009-10-09T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2009-10-09T00:57:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:57:36","slug":"hellish-week-and-im-still-crossing-my-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/hellish-week-and-im-still-crossing-my-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellish week (and I&#8217;m still crossing my fingers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow, this week was insane. \u00a0<em>INSANE.<\/em> Two papers (13 pages and 8 pages respectively) in one week, hours and hours wrestling with Sambanis&#8217;s Civil War dataset and Excel (I wish I knew STATA&#8211;it&#8217;s so much more useful for analyzing ginormous datasets), 33 tests to grade (of which I&#8217;ve only graded about 11), peer reviewing two research proposals, about half a dozen dense poli sci articles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I could continue the list, but I think it would bore you. \u00a0Suffice it to say that the Homework Alert Level has been on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RED <\/span>since Monday. \u00a0Not good&#8211;and damnably frustrating, since it eats up all my writing time. \u00a0Unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>However, by 3pm today, all the major hurdles were <em>finished.<\/em> Thank goodness! \u00a0And I not only got some writing in, I finished reading a book. \u00a0It was a pretty good one&#8211;I&#8217;ll review it sometime later.<\/p>\n<p>But, in completely unrelated news, I just want to let you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The second round of honorable mentions for the Writers of the Future contest has come out. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wotfblog.galaxypress.com\/2009\/10\/second-set-of-honorable-mentions-for.html\">I&#8217;m not on the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also have not received a rejection letter&#8230;yet.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;crosses fingers&gt; &lt;crosses fingers&gt; &lt;crosses fingers&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow, this week was insane. \u00a0INSANE. Two papers (13 pages and 8 pages respectively) in one week, hours and hours wrestling with Sambanis&#8217;s Civil War dataset and Excel (I wish I knew STATA&#8211;it&#8217;s so much more useful for analyzing ginormous datasets), 33 tests to grade (of which I&#8217;ve only graded about 11), peer reviewing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/hellish-week-and-im-still-crossing-my-fingers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hellish week (and I&#8217;m still crossing my fingers)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,164,42,300,39,247],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-college-life","tag-contests","tag-frustrations","tag-political-science","tag-schoolwork","tag-writers-of-the-future","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-iC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}