GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

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Reply 3980

sj27

Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Hi Xena! Ah just ignore that muppet :yep:

Welcome to GOG Soc :awesome:

Reply 3981

*Corinna*

Original post by Xena1983

Argh! I've only been posting on this site for one day and I have already found the most annoying and arrogant person!! Got to try to stay calm and not type too loudly, or else everybody at work will know that I'm not working... :tongue:

Anyway, hi all! I hope to hang around here over the next few months / years and hope that I have something of use to contribute!

Xena

haha welcome :smile:

Reply 3982

ktr

Original post by Xena1983

Anyway, hi all! I hope to hang around here over the next few months / years and hope that I have something of use to contribute!

Xena

Welcome Xena!

Hope everyone else is doing alright. Haven't had a chance to scroll the past few pages.

Reply 3983

Kitty Pimms

I had my first general anaesthetic today. So weird, not like falling asleep at all! I wasn't sick afterwards though which I'm pleased about and didn't need to nap. So all in all less bad than I was expecting (the cannula bloody hurt though!).

Also I get my laptop back tomorrow with a new keyboard so I can get some work done during my convalescence :p:

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Reply 3984

scarlet ibis

Original post by IlexAquifolium

Glad your op went safely and you're now on the road to recovery!

We'll be in Brum from tomorrow night til Sunday for the BCN Challenge. Give me a ring (I seem to think that I gave you my number when we met up earlier in the year) if you feel well enough to come and find us!

Reply 3985

Kitty Pimms

I will if I do, but I have to say I'm not wildly hopeful. At the moment the local hasn't fully worn off and I'm quite bleedy so I'm a bit scared about busting stitches if I move too fast. I had plans to go shopping tomorrow but I've called that off.

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Reply 3986

Piggsil

Original post by IlexAquifolium

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Hope you're feeling better! When I had general anaesthetic for my tonsils I felt really rubbish, fainted twice haha.

Reply 3987

sj27

Original post by IlexAquifolium

Hope you recover from op properly!

Had a meeting with someone from our central bank today...they are looking at beefing up/redeveloping a department which will be focused on the area I am hoping (please please) to do my MSt in next year ....it would be like the perfect environment to combine my fields of interest, and get involved in policy which I am keen on :awesome:

...but I neither know how long it's going to take them to set it up, if there would actually be a role for me, or even if I will still be in the country by the end of next year. Hmmm...of course I have a little voice telling me to stop counting chickens. And I love my present job anyway. But options are always nice :yes:

Reply 3988

apotoftea

Original post by IlexAquifolium

I did all my voluntary work in recovery and being sick after was one of the biggest fears of patients. Rarely happened though! Hope you're ok :hugs:

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Well you know when you've got stuff on your mind when you epically fail to recognise your own supervisor in a queue behind you despite him saying hello. He waited until the supervision to ask if I was ok :redface:

Reply 3989

Craghyrax

ZOMG! I've died and gone to heaven. Apart from being dead on my feet after being in a conference from 9:30 until 7:15 (and there's another full day of the same tomorrow), by luck I ended up eating lunch next to the world's leading expert in my specialism :eek3:

There are so many really awesome people at the conference too, totally on the same wavelength :daydreaming:

Only thing is I completely forgot that I'm trying to get a chance to present my PhD at a colloquialism attached to the big annual internet research conference coming up in October, and the deadline is ~~tomorrow... oops~~ today. So now I've got to stay up hastily writing my proposal for it :facepalm:

Original post by Xena1983

Anyway, hi all! I hope to hang around here over the next few months / years and hope that I have something of use to contribute!

Xena

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 3990

Craghyrax

Eugh, I really hope they accept my application for the colloquium, because I've only just finished it and submitted it and I've got to be up at 7:30 and I'm destroyed! :egg:

Reply 3991

The_Lonely_Goatherd

Fingers crossed for you, Craggy! That's AMAZING about eating lunch next to the world leader in your field :biggrin:

Love it when stuff like that happens :love:

My (informal) presentation for uni went OK. Got some good feedback as well as some constructive criticism which helped to make sense of the reading list I was given this time last year. Only thing was that the academic they'd invited from Royal Holloway hadn't even heard of Glee :eek2:

I kinda presumed everyone would at least have heard of it, so hadn't prepared a PowerPoint or any YouTube clips :colondollar:

So I emailed her some clips when I got back home :biggrin:

She remembered me sending her an email about 3 years ago, about postgrad study on ABBA :eek:

There was also someone there who I met at the big ethno conference two years back, who still remembered me. She's been doing postdoc work at Oxford and was telling me about the small party being arranged for my former dissertation supervisor, who is leaving for KCL. Tempted to gatecrash :ninja:

Reply 3992

scarlet ibis

Thats awesome about your conference, Craggy, hope they like your paper!

I just heard back from the editor of the journal where I sent my paper. He thinks it would be "of interest to his readers" and is sending it out for peer review! :biggrin:

I assumed that the editor would ditch it straight away as this is one of most prestigious journals in the field - was expecting to have to resubmit to a less well known one, although or course the peer reviewers may still not recommend it for publication.

Posted from my phone. Apologies for any typos!

Reply 3993

*Corinna*

Craggy and Scarlet, good luck to both of you :biggrin:

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Reply 3994

The_Lonely_Goatherd

Original post by scarlet ibis

This is great: sounds very promising! Well done :biggrin:

Repped!

Reply 3995

sj27

PRSOM for Craggy but hey allowed me to rep Scarlet :woo:

...to both of you, sounds great.

Reply 3996

*Corinna*

haha it only allowed me to rep Craggy...I've been randomly repping people on the postgraduate threads, if you see a page where every poster has one rep it's from me :tongue:

Reply 3997

ktr

Original post by Craghyrax

There are so many really awesome people at the conference too, totally on the same wavelength :daydreaming:

Glad the conference has turned out to be such a great and worthwhile thing to attend. :smile:

And fingers crossed for your proposal, good luck!

Original post by scarlet ibis

Good luck with the peer review stage!

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 3998

ktr

Original post by *Corinna*

haha it only allowed me to rep Craggy...I've been randomly repping people on the postgraduate threads, if you see a page where every poster has one rep it's from me :tongue:

hah. i know it's not really the same, but it makes me think of a conversation i was having with someone about the need to balance encouragement and criticism in marking and issues with points for effort.

a 'good job on posting in the forum!' :wink: