A happy ending – just the way I like them.
Can I go collapse now?
About Jenny
By day: cell biologist at UCL. By night: novelist, broadcaster, science writer, sci-lit-art pundit, blogger and Editor of LabLit.com. I blog about my life in science, not the facts and figures.
YAY!!1 Congratulations. 🙂
No, sorry. You have to start on the next paper now
Not before I get an ice cream. No ice cream, no new manuscript.
Congratulations!
very well done
Good news – makes all the effort worthwhile. Kick back for a day or two… the weekend is coming up after all…
Unfortunately I can’t kick back – I need to find myself some funding now! And there’s another smaller paper in the works that’s been sorely neglected of late.
Congratulations Jenny 🙂
go home young woman go home – start the grant writing on Monday
I need funding too, so I know that feeling.* That said, there is such a thing as cutting yourself some slack 😉 (Not that I really know your situation well enough to be giving out unasked-for advice.)
One the subject of ice-creams, I once spent a month in a lab where the members rotated making home-made ice-cream one day a week. Nice idea, that.
(* Trying to get funding for academic work outside academia…)
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Might be time to open that SiV champers?
rpg,
You’re aware that biologists seeing SIV will most likely think of Simian immunodeficiency virus… 😉
I’ve never see that emoticon before (hands on face?)
Hand in the air…
(And not unless they’ve been hiding under a rock.)
By the way, Jenny–TWO exclamation marks? Editors these days, eh?
Nice work, Jenny. Always good to see someone get the proper reward for all the hard work. Though perhaps I shouldn’t say that until the funding decision…!
Anyway, as others have said, you should at least take the w/end to celebrate.
Talking of which… we used to have a lab custom (which I inherited from the lab where I did my PhD, and have also seen elsewhere) of cracking a bottle of champers in the lab (or perhaps the PI’s office!) to celebrate such things, and then autographing the bottle with, say:
The empty bottles from all such occasions then sat, as a kind of semi-permanent reminder, on the highest shelf in the boss office. Much more fun than a row of PhD Theses.
BTW, convention dictated that the senior (as in PI, or best-paid) author on the paper paid for the fizz!
We’ll definitely have bubbly, sometime next week, as is institute custom. And yes, a certain senior author will be funding the libations…I always save the corks!
Congratulations! That’s great recognition and I’m sure it will serve you will for the next round.
That’s the professional attitude–no rest for the weary–one achievement (no matter how big) just becomes a prelude to the next one, as practical thoughts automatically move on to the next step.
Cheers!
Well done, Jenny – very well deserved. And, yes, put everything aside for the weekend and worry about the Next Big Thing on Monday.
The nicest part of being an editor with Your Favourite Weekly Etcetera Etcetera is being able to send acceptance letters, mainly because I get to do this relatively infrequently.
I still remember the day in which I’d done nothing but reject papers (usually I have other tasks to leaven the load) and came home in such a state that Mrs Crox actually had to ask what the matter was, such was the gloomy expression on the Crox visage.
Now, I don’t expect any sympathy – but accepting papers is MUCH nicer than rejecting them. Especially on a Friday, when I can imagine the lab parties going on long into the night.
Thanks, guys. Feeling pretty damned good here. I think the two exclamation marks noted by rpg above highlights the fact that the editorial office was similarly pleased to be able to bestow good news. When I was an editor, I took no pleasure in rejections – especially after extensive revisions.
Well done – enjoy the feeling!
woho! Congrats! Very fun to read!Good luck with the proposal but I hope you can rest and enjoy for a day or so…. I’m sure there are blackberries to pick and sun to shine in?! 🙂
(I wish I would’ve thought of saving the corks…..)
w00t!!!!
As the kids these day say. Allegedly.
Well done you, nice end to a long slog. Go and think about ordinary-shaped cells for a change. 😀
Wonderful! Congrats, Jenny.
Congratulations!
We should have a celebratory party on Google+ hangouts. Or something.
(trying to outdo Ricardipus’ impressive grasp of What The Cool Kids Say and Do)
Congratulations, Jenny! I think you can at least enjoy the weekend before starting the grant-writing on Monday? And JCB is a darn good journal!
As I said in person yesterday, Congrats!
One lab I knew always celebrated when they first submitted the paper. That seemed a bit cocksure to me, but I suppose that the difference is when you first submit you are happy and optimistic. After it has gone back and forth with revisions and rewrites and new experiments, then by the time it finally gets accepted you are just sick to the back teeth of the damned thing!
You celebrate away though!
p.s. Sorry, but as JCB recently accepted one of my own manuscripts (I’m only 2nd author, but I’m the EM guy, I’m never going to really be first again) I’m afraid their stock and reputation has plummeted in my estimation and I have no faith in their judgement. As Groucho Marx said “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept people like me as a member!”
Wonderful news, Jenny, well done!
We also break out the bubbly (shhhh!) for such occasions, and some of us are even wacky enough to make a cake decorated with designs relevant to the research in the manuscript (e.g. a lacI assay plate, with blue and clear plaques, for a paper in Mutation Research several years ago). I would make you a cake to celebrate your latest paper, but I don’t think it would survive the ocean crossing very well.
I remember one that had as subject line “Hope You Are Sitting Down. Put Aside Hot Drinks.”
Sorry I’m late to congratulate you: Congratulations! It always feels like something impossible has just happened, and then it sinks in and feels really really good. Can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on all this time (and what the “Buzz” is all about…)