Couple of weeks ago, I got back the review of my recent paper. The article is about 30 pages, with figures and tables each on separate page. The review is about 10 pages. Well, 3 reviews, to be exact. Anyway, I was really pissed, how somebody can go to such details as finding a missing full stop. Well…. I know now. My boss gave me today a paper to review. I spent whole afternoon on studying it. Came up with 2 pages of comments. I was very happy to find missing full stop, all right. I even went into trouble of checking if some of journal abbreviations are OK, the thing I usually consider the worst chore. Some were wrong. One I was wrong. I need to correct it in my End Note library.

I think, the idea of peer review is that your paper is read by somebody who really does the same kind of studies. Like in case of me and this paper. It was so similar, that I was even able to use comments from MY review. I really could understand the study, compare to mine, and figure out wht is missing or not mentioned. I guess I enjoyed it somewhat :).

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We are moving next Tusday. In the evening, I was complaining to my husband.
me: ‘you are not helping me with packing’
him: ‘I helped you today, I took out bags from storage’
me: ‘It doesn’t count, you were supposed to do it yesterday’.

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My college just dropped something into the sink. The Facilities Services guy came pretty quickly, looked at it, decided the matter needs a specialis-plumber and said they will both come back on Monday. My college called my boss, they took screwdriver, disasebled the thing, took out whatever was in there, put it together. 15 min of time….