Sorry the outcome wasn't what you hoped for. Glad it doesn't totally suck though.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jul 26, 2011 11:47:38 am PDT #18136 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Ginger - Jul 26, 2011 11:52:42 am PDT #18137 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Bobby Franklin, the Georgia state representative who proposed any number of insane, hateful and embarrassing bills, has been found dead at 59. He's the one who proposed legislation that would allow guns in church; abolish driver's licenses; mandate the state to pay debts in silver or gold; change the rape law to replace the word "victim" with "accuser;" and an annual anti-abortion bill, which this year included a provision that all miscarriages be investigated as to their cause. While I would have loved to seem him be trounced in an election, I'm finding commenters a little too full of glee. I know; never read the comments.
JZ - Jul 26, 2011 12:13:36 pm PDT #18138 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Okay, done bitching. Excelsior! and all that. I'm in a better position than I was two weeks ago, and when I hit 20 years it'll probably be better still. Suzi giveth hope.
Time to look at the various courses the Development Office offers and see what's worth taking. CSS? Dreamweaver? Flash? Java? XML? Pre-award grant administration? Sadly, there are no Victorian lit classes on offer.
sumi - Jul 26, 2011 12:14:19 pm PDT #18139 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Strix - Jul 26, 2011 12:17:30 pm PDT #18140 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I vote grant admin first (because your life is obvs a democracy!).
If you can help bring money in and distribute it efficiently, you will have more negotiating oomph next time.
amych - Jul 26, 2011 12:31:48 pm PDT #18141 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Seconding grant admin. But lobby for Victorian Lit - just think how actually useful and work-relevant lashings of Trollope would be in a vast slow-moving bureaucracy!!
beekaytee - Jul 26, 2011 12:46:58 pm PDT #18142 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I'm thirding the grant admin course. Grant writers and admins have jobs for life and it is a great, post-retirement/second income gig.
I wish I had the acumen and patience for it.
Jesse - Jul 26, 2011 1:24:15 pm PDT #18143 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What side/part of the process is "pre-award grant administration"? I ask because I could slot it on either end, and am curious. Is it about proposal development or grantmaking or what?
JZ - Jul 26, 2011 1:32:05 pm PDT #18144 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Proposal development and doing the admin side of shepherding it from first draft to submission to our internal research offices, which then submit it to whatever actual agency is doling out the money.
Jesse - Jul 26, 2011 1:55:06 pm PDT #18145 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, nice. All the worst parts! IMO. But super-useful and important.