My first article

I promised to read one novel every week but due to circumstances beyond my control I have extend the reading of Count of Monte Christo for another two weeks. I am very sorry I can not praise or criticise  the book for you but do not worry I will definitely do that in two weeks.

Now that the apology is out of the way, time for the main story of today's blog

My first article

You all know that all I whine about on this blog is my academic work and how I want to "silence" my supervisor ( I hope he never reads this). Today for the the first time I want to say what a wonderful supervisor he has been for the past few years, we have had our differences but we always sort our selves out. He is the best supervisor one could have. Why am I giving him all these praise you may ask, it is because my first journal article (paper) is about to be published. Now for those that are not so nerdy, this type of thing is equivalent to:

Men: your very first car

Women: The best item you got on sale every time you shop

So you can imagine how I feel right now. SO SO SO SO HAPPY and very proud of myself if I must say so.
I have a co-supervisor, I always think of him as the silent partner because he never says much just makes the final decision of my work. I only get to meet him on the hallways or once every two months (which is fine by me that man knows how to make one feel very inadequate). For all intents and purposes co-supervisor will now be known as the silent partner.

So silent partner seeing that I am now an "author" breaks a very sad news to me with the best and most cheerful smile I have ever seen on him. He says " Now you have written your first paper, I expect ten more papers from you"

Now he is assuming these ten papers will be written and published in the next three years. It took me two years to produce one paper, it is going to be a miracle to write five papers required to graduate not to talk to of TEN papers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So for the next few weeks a new article has to be drafted (hopefully).

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