Oh my
People want things from me. Constantly.
In the last few weeks, I was asked to write an article giving advice to postdocs for my university postdoc newsletter, write an abstract for a conference, chair a session at an upcoming conference, give a talk for the student chapter of my professional society at two different universities, write to admitted students at my future university, put slides on the web from a mentoring talk I gave last month, write a syllabus for the class I am teaching in the fall, write a perspective piece on women in science for a different newsletter, review one grant and two journal articles, and look at a group grant my colleagues are putting together to see how I could contribute as a co-PI.
Not complaining. This is fun. Besides, I said no to some of those requests.
Just saying: it’s quite the contrast. For the last N years of my life I basically went around quietly doing my research without anyone asking me for anything at all. Now that my name is on a web page with the words "Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2008" next to it, everything has changed.
Whew, you sound busy!
I too submitted an abstract for a conference last week…I will spend the next minute pretending it’s the same one.
Comment by ecogeofemme — March 4, 2008 @ 1:51 am
Hee! This sounds like fun! [I just checked my dept-to-be’s web page, and I’m not there yet, though; so I shall await the onslaught
. Or not: I don’t think that the page has been updated since about 2004..]
Comment by Ewan — March 4, 2008 @ 3:14 am
Sounds like those changes are here to stay! Congrats!
Comment by sciencegirl — March 5, 2008 @ 6:57 am