::sigh::

Why can't I concentrate on this review? Last January (2006), it seemed as though it would be easy enough to do, but it's still not finished sixteen months later. I need to get it submitted, but it's still too damned big. Even the comments I've gotten back from two committee members haven't helped. I just dropped an email to my masters advisor to ask her if I can call her to discuss it, but I'm thinking I'll just ring her and ask. I need to get this in submittable form before I start analyzing medaka characters.

I'm calling Karen.


*EDIT*

After I left a message on Karen's answering machine, I started looking through some of the comments I received from the peer review workshop. I jotted down a comment Dr. G wrote concerning "going directly to jail," i.e., rather than starting off by talking about how habitats can be altered and using that to lead into stress measurements, I should just say habitat alterations cause both conspicuous and subtle stress and this is why we should focus on the subtle. Then I jotted down the major shortcomings I see, reordered them, and jotted notes to myself for each one. While doing that, I was inspired with a way to justify why I'm using only fish studies and not ALL external stress studies I can find back to 1975 in Biological Abstracts.

I've been jotting and crossing out and rejotting for over an hour. My hand hurts, but I'm less frustrated with myself.