{"id":175,"date":"2016-04-10T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=175"},"modified":"2016-04-11T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:49:59","slug":"writing-papers-is-messy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2016\/04\/10\/writing-papers-is-messy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Papers is Messy Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing the paper from hell for the last two months&#8230;almost non-stop. \u00a0If we ignore the ginormous pile of laundry on my bedroom floor, the gross dog-haired, dusty floorboards in every room, and \u00a0the back porch furniture overturned in the latest wind storm that has not been up-righted, writing papers is STILL messy work. \u00a0To wit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2016\/04\/20160410_145239.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2016\/04\/20160410_145239.jpg\" alt=\"20160410_145239\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What might not be quickly identifiable in that stack is my February bank statement (unresolved), my local tax bill (unpaid), and a knitting pattern or two (unfiled). \u00a0You CAN see my beloved iced coffee, a beverage I&#8217;ve been consuming like my life depends on it.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two months I have had occasional breaks. \u00a0I have only had to miss Gamelan rehearsal once. \u00a0i went out for a glass of wine with friends two weeks ago. \u00a0I manage make it to the gym only slightly less frequently than I do when I am not under a major work-crush. \u00a0But if anybody decides to &#8220;pop by&#8221; my house they will be left standing on the porch because my house is so gross even I have to avert my gaze. \u00a0And will continue to do so until this monster-from-hell gets sent to the journal editor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing the paper from hell for the last two months&#8230;almost non-stop. \u00a0If we ignore the ginormous pile of laundry on my bedroom floor, the gross dog-haired, dusty floorboards in every room, and \u00a0the back porch furniture overturned in the latest wind storm that has not been up-righted, writing papers is STILL messy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}