1. Evaluating a couple of dozen abstracts, half of which are about neuroprotection (which is rather easily accomplished in a lab but never, ever works in people) and the other half involve functional neuroimaging (which is neat when they show it on the Discovery Channel, but the nuts and bolts of which are incredibly, incredibly boring.)
2. Trying to write 1000 words on something over which you could easily produce 50,000 (given time and leave from everything else on your professional docket, of course), making it accessible to a (relatively) general audience, AND make it not sound exactly like the other 30 or so papers published on the same subject in the past 4 years (especially the ones you wrote) and oh yeah, do it by the end of the week, please.
The upside (and it isn't a trivial one when it's 90+° out and gas is $4/gallon)...I get to do these things at home.
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I hear ya on #1...Computer Science is no where near as exciting as it looks in Swordfish...and usually people don't drink beer while they're programming. Important stuff anyway.
However, maybe that's a good thing - if it was interesting everyone would do it and we'd be out of jobs.
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