How did they know you submitted it? Agree with previous two posters though -- I'd just say the paper is being reviewed and amended and you'd be happy to send them the final copy when it's ready.

Blatant 'helpful user' points hogging.

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Peewee, I have joined The Procrastinators under another ID. Hoo ha ha 8-)

"Academic writers cannot get writer’s block. Don’t confuse yourself with your friends teaching creative writing in the fine arts department. You’re not crafting a deep narrative or composing metaphors that expose mysteries of the human heart. The subtlety of your analysis of variance will not move readers to tears, although the tediousness of it might…Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement." Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

Writer's block is possible in academic writing now?!? Isn't this something that afflicts fiction writers who have ran out of ideas? Weird.

Great. Would you like a medal?

woe betide me, for my crime of quotients
ostracized, forlorn, preferred my absence
take thy cello from out my soul sneaks!
and thy lyrics from out my heart walmart!
woe betide this grim melancholy, accursed this unwritten melody!
forsaken in postdoc limbo
hope! hope! have ye departed me?
my viva remains, but what of my sanity!

WalmartPeewinsnki told me I'm not welcome to join The Procrastinators *sob*

Production values? If it's going to be a cheap thing then it's going to reflect poorly on phd students everywhere.

Awesome thread. I really relate. My supervisor once asked me to do X, Y and Z. This had to be done after Q, P, R & S. They also commented on A, B, and C, and wanted this done before X, Y, and Z. They obviously didn't have a clue as I couldn't do Y without first doing B and C. What's more, Z was the pre-requisite for finishing Q and P! Terrible really -- it's a hard life being a phd student.