An Academic Epiphany

So, for two weeks, I have been struggling with a project of mine trying to get it into a shape where I could submit it to a hip-and-happening conference in the UK (WOTE'06). On Tuesday of this week, I resigned myself to look towards the long-term and not submit anything to this conference.

Then last night I had what I can only call an academic epiphany. I realized that I didn't need to be writing the paper I had been futzing with, but instead needed to write a totally different paper! And I had roughly 24 hours to get it done. 24 hours, some serious damage to my RSI-hobbled wrists and many caffeinated drinks later, I have a new paper that I just submitted called, "Design and the Support of Transparency in VVPAT Systems in the US Voting Systems Market". Word. Hopefully the fact that I was a bit late on the deadline (I submitted an incomplete version on time and then a complete version four hours later) won't ding me.

Time to rest these hands yo.