Paper finally submitted!

I just submitted another paper on finding community in blogs to a conference last night. Oh wow, what a ride this paper was. The paper was due 12 midnight, but the conference web site did not specify what time zone. When I asked them, they said that it was 12 midnight in whatever time zone you are in. So, that means Pacific Standard Time gave me about 3-4 extra hours to work on the paper after midnight Eastern Standard Time!

I was coordinating with my supervisor last night, exchanging e-mails and calling each other, to figure out who was doing which section, so we wouldn't step on each other's toes. There's nothing like the adrenaline of writing a paper and feeling the heat of a deadline for submission. It seems like your head gets so extremely focussed, you have all the energy you need to get your thoughts down and write them out. At least for me, that's what I felt, I felt the thoughts were translating quite nicely onto the writing of the paper. Of course, it also helped that I had organized the paper into sections and wrote about what the different sections and subsections were going to be, to accelerate the process.

Every hour, I kept uploading a newer version of the paper, just to make sure if the submission site closed down, at least I had the most recent paper uploaded. Finally, after 4 am in the morning yesterday, I finished the paper and decided it's done and submitted it. Now, it's all up to the reviewers and program committee to decide if the paper gets accepted. I felt so tired after that I just slept in today, and this weekend I'm going to relax and do no research or work whatsoever (of course, I'll do other work, but it won't be research or school related and it won't be intensive that it will require my brain lol).

What's next? I have a journal paper to submit middle of April and then another paper at the end of April. So, I will still be busy! Oh yes, and I also have to schedule and do the PhD depth oral exam as well. Ah, the life of a PhD student!!!!