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Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.<\/p>\n
Today was one of those days: I’d had a long day by suppertime, and it only got worse after supper when I looked up the schedule for tomorrow’s Western Users of SAS Software<\/a> conference in San Francisco. My consultancy<\/a> offers custom script development for a SAS product called JMP, so I proposed a paper for the conference about that. In July I got word that my paper had been accepted only as a poster and was wait listed \u00a0for a speaking slot, so in early August, I wrote my poster and sent it in. A few weeks later I got email instructing me to upload my paper, and it wasn’t at all clear to me whether that meant my poster had been promoted to a talk. I sent email asking about that, wrote my paper, and uploaded it. I never got back any clarification, so I assumed that this is one of those conferences where poster presenters get to put a paper in the proceedings, but they don’t actually give the paper as a talk.<\/p>\n Not exactly great communication.<\/p>\n So tonight, I wasn’t all that surprised when I checked the conference schedule to find out what time I was supposed to set up my poster, only to discover that I was listed as giving a hands-on workshop at 2pm tomorrow. My plans to relax and watch a movie thus shot, I settled in for another night at the computer, preparing a talk and slides. I got sidetracked along the way by a hefty number of other things, so it was 2am by the time I finally was ready for bed and\u2014<\/p>\n Oops.<\/p>\n Still needed to make a kaddish.<\/p>\n Argh. What a pain\u2014not that it’s the Kaddish’s fault that my work life is like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[216,253],"tags":[927,928,926,254,924,925],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts","tag-2am","tag-hassle","tag-jmp-scripting","tag-ritual","tag-western-users-of-sas-software","tag-wuss"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}