I try to respond to emails in a very timely fashion. I basically have a time set aside every day to do "business work:" that is, respond to emails, send emails, look up dates and make sure my calendar is updated, plan when I'm going to do what homework and whether laundry needs to be done. So while I may not respond to things immediately, I do respond to them either that day or the next day.
And it's frustrating when people don't do the same.
Like, seriously? My entire project is basically waiting on YOU GUYS (yeah, you THREE professors who haven't responded in a week) since I've written articles for the rest, and you can't even respond to me in a week? Even if it's just to tell me no, sorry, you're busy? I would accept that as an answer! As long as it was an answer!
Sigh.
But I suppose that's what happens when most of your subjects are professors. Busy people with their brains spread out in twenty different places all the time. What a life they must have.
And I have completed two articles. So far I think I'm looking at about 7 total? I have a draft of a third and fourth, but those are the only ones I can write so far. I'm waiting on three more. I'm hoping to have them all done by the end of September, which means more writing for me! Yay!
So basically my next week of work will be just writing and nothing else. (Unless one of these professors decides to actually respond.) Maybe I'll send a reminder email to the ones who have been non-responsive the longest. Because I have gleaned rewards for being persistent in the past. Maybe it's really the only way to reach people with spread-out-brains.
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