So, sometime last fall when I was going through my work folders on my computer, I found a paper that I had written about queer theory and psychology. I was somewhat confused by this discovery, because I remembered having written it several years ago (probably before graduating in 2004?), but I couldn't remember submitting it to any journals.

It might have been a paper for a class, but if it was, I don't remember. It seemed more like it had been written specifically as a journal article, and I do recall that I had wanted to submit it to a journal called Theory & Psychology. There aren't a lot of journals that would be interested in this style of article, but Theory & Psychology had printed another article on queer theory several years ago. (It was, in my humble opinion, not a *great* article, which was part of my motivation for writing my own piece.)

I was just baffled by finding it--had I really done all the work of writing an article, knowing where I wanted to send it and everything, and then just not ever sent it? Or was I blanking? I had written it 4 or 5 years ago... I suppose it's possible that I submitted it, got a rejection letter, and then forgot about it.

Still, that didn't seem correct. I thought for sure that I would remember a rejection. So, I decided to proceed on the assumption that I had not sent the piece. I opened it up, spruced what needed sprucing (not much), wrote up a cover letter, and submitted it.

Then I kind of forgot about it again, as many many months passed and I didn't hear anything. I sort of assumed it was probably going to be a rejection, or that perhaps the journal was going defunct or something. But today I got the following brief email from the editor:

"We now have three reviews of your manuscript "Psychological Science and Queer Theory: Interrogations and Implications" and I will be writing you a formal letter tomorrow requesting some revisions to your manuscript. I just want to let you know it is coming and apologize for the very unusual delay occasioned by the wait for last reviewer. I didn't realize we were going to be waiting for such a long time and I hope you have not been inconvenienced by this wait."

Wooooohooo! That sounds promising, doesn't it? The fact that the letter is going to request revisions means that I did not get a rejection, I got a "revise and resubmit." Which is one step closer to an acceptance!

Yay!
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Reading:
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Netflixing:
House, Season 3
Should be:
Grading final papers.