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[happychemist]

So I had some other post I was going to put up about how I've been really happy in my laziness, etc., BUT....

ALL THAT NORMAL STUFF DOES NOT MATTER.

Because I just heard that my paper was just accepted to SCIENCE.

Yes, not your humdrum run of the mill publications: SCIENCE.

SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How am I supposed to revise my talk NOW!?!?!

Ok, so I have to admit, this news stuns me. I had worried if people out there would think my project as cool as I did. I had worried that I was about to graduate without a publication to my name. I had worried that my boss had thought too optimistically of our work when he submitted it, and I was mortified that he'd been telling people right and left that we'd submitted it to Science, and once we got rejected I'd have to go around telling people with a meek voice that it hadn't been accepted.

I was so worried and nervous that I didn't even blog that we submitted it.

BUT NOW I CAN. BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION. :P And when I talk about my project next Monday, I can say, proudly, "And this work has been accepted for publication into Science." I'll try not to squeal or do a silly dance, but I can't promise that.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

Dude. I don't know what I'm supposed to be more happy about: defending and getting my doctrate, or getting published in one of the premiere scientific publications in the world? ;)

Comments

[the-marchioness.livejournal.com]

Oh hell, if you won't dance I'll do it for you!

*shimmie*
*shimmie*
*boogie*
*shimmie*
*shimmie*
*boogie*

THIS IS FANTASTIC NEWS!

But we always knew you were awesome, so how could your project not have been awesome too? I hope you'll let us know when it's in print so we can admire it (and your FIRST AUTHOR NAME) in all its bounded glory.

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

OMG! OMG! OMG! That's terrific!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!

[enogitna.livejournal.com]

WOW! I think my parents and Josh both get that magazine. What issue? I'll have to oh-so-casual point it out and be like, "So my friend wrote that."

[the-mongrel.livejournal.com]

That is ***awesome****!!!!! *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* I am soooooo proud of you Crystal!!!!! Mega big congrats!!!!!

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

Way to go, Crystal!

As for what to be more happy about, you can be happy about both things because getting your doctorate and being published in Science are both fantastically awesome things to be happy about, and no one deserves to be happy about their accomplishments more than you do, so BRAVA my favorite Happy Chemist ;)!!

P.S. This might be a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyways: after you defend on Monday, do you officially get your PhD? Or are you only a Doctor after you physically get your diploma?

[heidimo.livejournal.com]

woohoo! congrats! -:D

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

You are awesome (icon is you). SCIENCE. OMG, I am totally impressed. Totally. Also happy dancing for you, and preparing to brag to people that I know someone so brilliant as to have her first published paper be published in SCIENCE.

Let us know when it comes out, so I can buy a copy for you to autograph!

huge CONGRATS!

[enjae.livejournal.com]

OMG! That is SO AWESOME! I am squeeing like mad over here for you! YayayayayayayYAY!!

[spotzle.livejournal.com]

Shyuh! I'll go to your talk and do a happy hamster dance for you!

Or, better, I'll stand in back of you and do interpretive dancing.

YOU ARE AWESOME!

[jennlynnfs.livejournal.com]

WOOT! OMG. That is awesome! You deserve it 10x.

Isaac is doing a little dance for you. (His dancing consists of tipping his head to the side and turning in circles.)

Congratulations! And you must let us know when the issue is out!

*applause*

[alysonl.livejournal.com]

Crystal, that kicks butt. You are absolutely, on a molecular level, made of awesome. *hugs*

So proud of you.

[worldmaker-13.livejournal.com]

both! definitely both!!

congrats!!!!!!!!