I fail chemistry, plus talk of journal submissions and an update about the asshat!
I've been allergic to aspirin all my life. If I take it by accident, I start wheezing and my back itches. So, no aspirin for me. I'm relegated to tylenol, ack.
And only last week do I realize that I've been using face cleaners with salicylic acid for the past decade or so. Uh, duh? I never had an allergic reaction on my face, but maybe it's better that I don't use that stuff, no?
In other news, we submitted the second paper to the journal "Genes and Development" last Friday. Now one of 4 things can happen:
-We get an email anywhere between 24 hrs - 1 week later stating essentially "thanks but no thanks." This is the polite way of saying "what the hell were you thinking submitting it HERE?!" If this happens, we'll revamp the paper and resubmit it to another journal (EMBO is next in line).
-We get an email 3-4 weeks later saying "It's great, we'll take it as is!" This is very rare and worthy of celebration.
-We get an email 3-4 weeks later saying "It's great, but you need to do [insert few to many additional experiments here] before we'll take it". This response tends to be the most common in our lab (it's what happened with my first paper, actually). At this point, you have 6 months to fix things up and resubmit it. If you did what they wanted it's in. If you didn't and you skirted what they asked the paper may be rejected entirely (my boss and I once rejected a resubmitted paper because they had completely ignored our recommendations).
-We get an email 3-4 weeks later saying "thanks but no thanks". This sucks the most because it's such a waste of your time.
So I'm hoping that we don't hear anything in the next week, which would mean that it didn't get automatically rejected and it was sent out for review. Beyond that, who knows!
And finally, do you guys remember when I was dumped from that postdoc spot I had lined up? And the professor who dumped me had evaded emails from me and my boss and NEVER TOLD ME HIMSELF? Yeah, well it turns out that he's done such assholish behavior to at least one other person who wanted to work in his lab. Jerk. Plus, rumblings around the institution hint that many faculty members don't like the guy AT ALL. So maybe it's a good thing that I didn't go work for him? Maybe my karma was very good to me after all. *hugs karma*. ^_^
