Proto Himbo EuropeanNov 8

TL;DR: missed a deadline. Fuck me.

I have been trying, between all the very maddening interruptions, to get a proposal submitted to EASP (European Association for #SocialPsychology) for our study on masculinity, masculinity threat, and US voting behavior (especially by minorities). We have the data, I have most of the analyses finished, etc.

The deadline was 15 minutes ago and I'd need another few hours, realistically. This was also the *extended *deadline. I didn't know about the conference until recently, but I suspect the deadline was already extended by a week, as often happens.

EASP is on the aggressive end of conference persnicketiness: only complete, fully analyzed projects are allowed; the presenter has to register early and super pinky swear they will show up; there are a few nonstandard details about the abstract beyond character count. So that boat has sailed.

I should have started this two weeks ago, but I didn't know about it until maybe 3 days ago, and couldn't do any work on it until yesterday (though some of the analyses have been finished for weeks; just not all the right ones). The past two days were not enough to get a proposal together.

My time management is one of the culprits here, but I would also like to nominate the following factors as instrumental in this notable deadline-miss:

  • The main author who wanted this (he has research funds to travel to Europe from the USA) and told me about it 3 days ago
  • My university's advising weeks (yes, TWO fucking weeks of schedule chaos) and their "if a student complains your job is in question" approach to pretty much everything, meaning my time has been eaten by a combination of predictable and out-of-nowhere fires to put out since before Halloween
  • My daughter dropping on me yesterday afternoon that Model U.N. had its big convention yesterday and today, requiring a bunch of inconveniently-timed driving

    • I wouldn't have been able to afford a trip to #france next summer, anyway, or even the ~$500 Euro (!!!) registration fee, because my uni has fuck all for travel funds unless you're an administrator--we're predominantly a teaching school, despite admins insisting that research is a critical job-relevant activity we should be doing in all the zero time we have as they increase our teaching load.

    Those are some pretty great excuses, but I still feel bad for letting my coauthor down, and it would have been a chance to get our research results out to a European audience.

    Oh well. Missed opportunities are the slightly rotten smell lingering around most aspects of my life.

    #EASP26 #easp #timemanagement #oops #fuck #professor #research