When all else fails, write a blog entry

Apparently I am constantly revising in the real world, but in the blog? Not so much.
Truly, I am actually writing like a maniac. I work in research and, as such, I am expected to publish papers in academic journals. “Publish or Perish” is the actual saying. The general routine is, you spend 1-2 years doing a research study. It takes a few months to write up the results (yes, some people are faster, shut up.) then you submit said manuscript to a journal. Here’s the first tricky part - you ALWAYS submit to the Journal of Big Impressive Research (JBIR) first. Why? Well, because you are naïve and think your paper will change the world, if only there’s a large enough readership. Or because everyone says it is stellar. Or even because you are hoping that JBIR has a dearth of submissions that month and they might be feeling kind. Heh.
Whatever. 3 months (minimum) later, you get a scathing e-mail generally saying “what a cr@p-as$ study and how dare you waste our time”. If you are lucky, they include details about which parts of your manuscript are the worst.
Move down the list of impressive journals, and repeat. Eventually, your little manuscript finds a home and all of the co-authors agree that they should have tried that journal first.
Hey Internet, hold on a moment while I roll my eyes.
It can take a year or more to get a paper published. But by then you are expected to have moved on in your research to bigger and better things. The result is that you have several papers in various stages of the revision/submission process lurking around like a fetid odor. I call them albatrosses. They hang around your neck, never truly completed, and weigh you down.
So yes, I’ve been busy revising. But no, it hasn’t been in this blog.
Sorry y’all.