Wonderboy?

Has Tom been looking at what is written on the inside of my underpants?

Just got off the phone with our librarian, who is doing all the work that would drive me

mad, informing her of new funness for her to work on. In the next month she needs to compare what I have for gaps in our journal online with what has been printed. To explain, on our site we have articles that have been printed in our journal. The problem is not all of the articles that are printed are online. Now, our hands are tied on a few years of journals as we wait for Google to finish scanning the issues we sent over to them (they’re 2/3 of the way done, woo!), but for some reason there are gaps in articles that should be online and, obviously, are not. These are journals from between 1996 and 2000. So, over the past few weeks I’ve isolated, by comparing what is on our site to what is listed on Pubmed’s site (Pubmed is a website hosted by our content host that expounds every article that they can get there hands on from every journal that they also host; quite a long list), which gaps there are and which articles should be there. However, and here’s the tricky part, there are some obvious omissions of certain articles from even Pubmed that we need to isolate. This is where our librarians come in. They have been charged with the task of comparing what I have compiled to what is in the actual, physical journals. This doesn’t sound too hard, you may think, but we’re talking about five years from each of our five journals. And with twelve or more issues per year (There are fluctuations because Circulation publishes multiple issues per month), that can add up to a lot of issues.

That was a very round about way of explaining everything to get to the real point of

this post. Nice! So, anyway, I was explaining the task that I have thrust upon her. The conversation went off on a few tangents, and ended up talking about the fact that I’m a lowly temp. I informed her, which I don’t believe that I’ve mentioned on here yet, that I’ve been told that Stephen, current Director and come May V.P. of Publishing, has been contemplating expediting the process that would make me a man…I mean, a full-time employee of the AHA. This would mean that I might be a full-time employee here come mid-April; which, would mean that I could go to both the HighWire and HBX conferences and training sessions in Palo Alto and L.A. respectfully. I’m not putting too much stock in this, however. I’m sure that Stephen is far too busy preparing to move up the ladder than to busy himself with David’s whining about still being a temp and not being able to go to California. She then says, “I was in a meeting with Tom earlier today, and he referred to you as ‘Wonderboy.’” Bah? I always thought that Tom thought of me as a decent employee that gets the job done but really isn’t that great. If, in fact, Tom does think of me as a sort of ‘Wonderboy’ then perhaps I should be optimistic about all this. Perhaps Stephen really is interested in accelerating the process of becoming full-time, and that I will, come April, be flying out to California for two conferences.

Prosperity, here I come…hopefully.