notmatt | Oh, huzzah.

I finally got my Enceladus paper submitted. Yay. I'd hoped to be done with it in June. I remember being antsy as far back as October that I wasn't getting results fast enough. I really needed to get it out the door before the Boulder meeting, which is the week after next, so it looks like I managed that at least. Now it gets to go through the review process, which I hope is less painful than the last paper.

If I don't sound enthusiastic about this it's because now I'm worrying about what all I forgot to consider and what I did wrong. It's like final exams all over again. I need to stop second-guessing myself. I wasted several hours this week trying to track down errors in my results only to find out they were correct after all. "Wait this isn't right!" Two hours later: "Oh, yeah, it's all handled in the post-processing". Or "Fsck me, I forgot to include this factor in the models! I have to re-run everything!" An hour later: "No, it's all fine. I didn't include it because its effect is tiny. I even wrote that down in my notes a month ago. In fact here's that line in the code commented out." I have been better at maintaining older versions of my codes, so I'm able to diagnose these things more quickly now.

I suppose I need to prepare my talks before I head off to the meeting. I still don't know how long my timeslot is for the EFG meeting, which makes it difficult.