state of play

No time to play, sadly. This last week was spent preparing for a session I had organized at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a once-a-year event at which non-scientists get exposed to a whole bunch of science. So I thought it would be a good idea to organize something on eye movements, so me and three others stood up and did our thing to an audience of around 100 people, which was exactly 88 people more than we had expected!

So you'd think that this would leave me with a warm glow of self-satisfaction. Nope.... it left me with a ton of papers still to process on the journal's queues. So yesterday afternoon (Saturday), and today (Sunday, for those of you still hungover from the night before...) were/will be spent on the journal. I have an image in my mind from one of those old B-movies in which the angry villagers march up a hill with pitchforks and flaming torches. Replace the word 'villagers' with 'authors' and you'll have a sense of my anxieties...

Things to look forward to this week:

• re-writing whole sections of the Graduate (i.e. MSc.) Handbook
• preparing for, and chairing, the graduate examinations committee meetings
• reviewing at least two NIH grants
• working on the journal (that's a given, 24/7)
• re-building the pond

Things not to look forward to this week:

• re-writing whole sections of the Graduate (i.e. MSc.) Handbook
• preparing for, and chairing, the graduate examinations committee meetings
• reviewing at least two NIH grants
• working on the journal (that's a given, 24/7)

So all in all, not a bad week...