Daily Newsie

I got my official rejection notice today from the Central States Communication Association. It didn’t say much about why my paper wasn’t chosen — the comments included were all quite positive, actually — but, nonetheless, it wasn’t chosen. I’m minorly bummed, but it’s nothing an evening of junk food and cable television won’t fix. I may end up going to the conference anyway, since a close friend of mine got an e-mail saying her paper was in the top four and I can’t let her go to St. Louis and be all academic without me.

It’ll pass, I know, but for tonight I’m going to be mopey and eat too much. Then tomorrow I’ll wake up, pack up my books, and head to the library to focus on the next chapter in my academic career: the Human Subject Review Board application necessary to begin research on my thesis. Things are progressing nicely in that arena, but I’ll explain another day so I can, in true NaBloPoMo style, milk another post out of it.