Give Me A Break!

This past month and a half or so I had been working on getting all the research papers that were submitted by social work researchers (i.e. professors, practitioners, researchers, etc.) for our conference this coming January in New Orleans all appropriately allocated to different reviewers for review and score them by which their acceptance will be based upon. Tonight I sent out the notification to the reviewers with their review assignments. Now the task is to monitor the review process as frequent as possible then I will be monitoring it in a daily basis as we get closer to the review deadline. Meanwhile, as part of the program development, I will be figuring out the meeting spaces that the hotel had provided us from which I will be able to determine the number of papers that we can accept for the conference. That’s the first step of the many steps that it involves in scheduling the accepted papers into different sessions – but that does not have to happen yet as we are still in the review period. I definitely need to be thinking about it, though, laying the program matrix now as oppose to when the Program Chair inquire about this kind of stuff and you don’t have an answer. So, I will be working on that to get a sense of scheduling procedure before the committee call.

Now that one of the major part of the program development is out of my hand, I can at least breath now and tend to the other things that I have been negligent about during the last month or so—those needs my attention, too! During the next several weeks my workload will be more likely slow – but I’m sure I will have adequate projects that will keep me busy, like transitioning some of the advertising, accounting, and membership projects to one of our membership assistants in the office. The transition was suppose to have been completed like a month or so ago – but with the busy schedule that everyone had it was rather challenging to find the time. Now that things are slowing down a bit, we might be able to move forward with the transition task(s) and hopefully smooth things out where necessary while we’re at it. So workload is okay considering the major task has been completed at the moment but will pick up at some point in late August all the way through late November/early December.

I felt like writing this today because I feel accomplished. I can go home now not so stressed…

Have a great work-week everyone!

d-Jae