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Still .... Alive....
Oct. 11th, 2007 03:59 pmLast Friday, someone forwarded me the announcement for a grant application. The description went like this: "If you are doing Elisel's research, we would like to give you money."
Okay, not precisely like that - but pretty damn close. The bad news? Prelim applications were due TODAY at 4 PM. Which is to say, less than a week from the day I received the announcement.
This is, perhaps, why you have seen VERY LITTLE of me online for the past week. (Also, I spent more time than I should have being social this weekend, which was awesome, even if I was blowing off schoolwork to do it.)
However, the application has been submitted and I just received notice that Sea Grant received all my materials on time! <3 So now I sit back and wait on them to tell me whether or not they recommend that I put together a full proposal. Whee. It's a good day when you get to ask an institution to give you sixty thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, I think post-midterm doldrums and a few really busy months have caught up with me. Oh, I'm not depressed... but I am constantly exhausted, physically and mentally. When I come home, all I want to do is sit and stare at the TV like a zombie. Reading occasionally seems like an activity that requires too much effort on my part. Yeah, it's that bad. But despite physically dragging, I feel pretty damn good about my life right now.
On the feline front, Casper has learned how to play "kitten on the keys" and does so at every opportunity (e.g. whenever I sit down to play), making it likely I will never be able to practice a musical composition all the way through in one sitting, ever again.
Oh, so tired. I'd nap, but I'd regret it later.
I might anyway.
Okay, not precisely like that - but pretty damn close. The bad news? Prelim applications were due TODAY at 4 PM. Which is to say, less than a week from the day I received the announcement.
This is, perhaps, why you have seen VERY LITTLE of me online for the past week. (Also, I spent more time than I should have being social this weekend, which was awesome, even if I was blowing off schoolwork to do it.)
However, the application has been submitted and I just received notice that Sea Grant received all my materials on time! <3 So now I sit back and wait on them to tell me whether or not they recommend that I put together a full proposal. Whee. It's a good day when you get to ask an institution to give you sixty thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, I think post-midterm doldrums and a few really busy months have caught up with me. Oh, I'm not depressed... but I am constantly exhausted, physically and mentally. When I come home, all I want to do is sit and stare at the TV like a zombie. Reading occasionally seems like an activity that requires too much effort on my part. Yeah, it's that bad. But despite physically dragging, I feel pretty damn good about my life right now.
On the feline front, Casper has learned how to play "kitten on the keys" and does so at every opportunity (e.g. whenever I sit down to play), making it likely I will never be able to practice a musical composition all the way through in one sitting, ever again.
Oh, so tired. I'd nap, but I'd regret it later.
I might anyway.
