I don’t know if I can survive in this business. As an update to a previous post, my ASA submission was actually accepted, so I’ll be presenting in a regular session. But while this is good news, the feedback I received has my heart racing and my stomach all upset and I don’t know if I can deal with this for the rest of my career as a sociologist. The first review was not so bad, suggesting that I add something to the paper to further contextualize it. Fine. But the second review, while stating that the paper is well done, boils down to saying that I’m not saying anything new. Which, in a way, I agree with. I don’t think much of anything in sociology is saying anything new. But what I think I’m doing is conceptualizing something that we already know to 1) broaden the concept as it’s been used in the past and 2) give us a new way of understanding not just the phenomenon I use as an empirical example, but also other parallel phenomena.

Ok, now that I’ve written that out I feel a little better in that I have a response to the critique. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Oh man, this is going to be the death of me. Please tell me this gets easier (even if it doesn’t, I need to be talked off of the ledge.)

I’ve been thinking a lot about priorities lately, and I’m sure you’ve noticed my lack of posting lately. As I haven’t been writing (or reading in the blogoshere for that matter) I’ve found, much to my surprise, that I really don’t have all this free time left over. Blogging takes time, but I used to think it was time I had. But I was wrong. I really don’t have time to blog, if I also want to do things like eat and sleep, and not multitask while I’m doing them (well of course not while sleeping, blogging actually took sleeping time.) I don’t want to delete the blog, as I’d like to share some things, but I’m coming to the realization that it must be sporadic, at times like now where I’m just waiting for a child to fall asleep. On mothers day. *sigh* I’m a bit of an exhibitionist, if I’m brave enough to admit it – I like to put myself out there, it keeps me honest and in the present- so I will be twittering. Follow me if you like