Like the title says, I hate merit evaluation day. I am ALWAYS on the committee that evaluates faculty performance in my department. Raises, if there are any, are based upon this evaluation. (We've had two years without raises).
I mostly hate it because the other tenured faculty in my department have been racking up lines on their research accomplishments through publishing edited volumes or readers or through publishing in low-profile journals. (Untenured faculty definitely cannot take that route here).
So I'm resentful because I'm taking a different track--going for top journals (mostly) and also working on a book. This is a very slow process, with increased likelihood of rejections. And I'm embarrassed because I don't have much in the way of publications this year. Actually, I have NOTHING published. But thank goodness, I just had an article accepted at the top journal (though that won't officially count for my merit raise until 2012, when it comes out).
I have two more articles that I really, really should send out soon (even if they aren't perfect), just so I can go back to working on my book for a while.
Will I actually follow my own advice? Maybe, maybe not.
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