End of Year Inventory, 2013

Attention conservation notice: Navel-gazing.

Paper manuscripts completed: 4 Papers accepted: 3 Papers rejected: 4 (fools! we'll show you all!) Papers in revise-and-resubmit purgatory: 2 Papers in refereeing limbo: 1 Papers with co-authors waiting for me to revise: 7 Other papers in progress: I won't look in that directory and you can't make me

Grant proposals submitted: 5 Grant proposals funded: 1 Grant proposals rejected: 3 (fools! we'll show you all!) Grant proposals in refereeing limbo: 2 Grant proposals in progress for next year: 1 Grant proposals refereed: 2

Talk given and conferences attended: 17, in 10 cities

Classes taught: 2 [i, ii] New classes taught: 0 Summer school classes taught: 1 New summer school classes taught: 0 Pages of new course material written: not that much

Manuscripts refereed: 21 Number of times I was asked to referee my own manuscript: 0 Manuscripts waiting for me to referee: 5 Manuscripts for which I was the responsible associate editor at Annals of Applied Statistics: 4 Book proposals reviewed: 1 Book proposals submitted: 0 Book outlines made and torn up: 3 Book manuscripts completed: 0 Book manuscripts due soon: 1

Students who completed their dissertations: 0 Students who completed their dissertation proposals: 0 Students preparing to propose in the coming year: 4 Letters of recommendation sent: 60+ Dissertations at other universities for which I was an external examiner: 2 (i, ii)

Promotions received: 0 Tenure packets submitted: 1 Days until final decision on tenure: Book reviews published on dead trees: 0

Weblog posts: 93 Substantive posts: 17, counting algal growths Incomplete posts in the drafts folder: 39 Incomplete posts transferred to the papers-in-progress folder: 1

Books acquired: 260 Books begun: 104 Books finished: 76 Books given up: 3 Books sold: 28 Books donated: 0

Major life transitions: 1

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