Busy Week

I skipped Wednesday's post. The grant that I've been describing was due Thursday (which was after the grants person at my university let me have an extra day), and it was a little overwhelming. Officially, the grant isn't due until Sunday, but people at the university have to sign off on it, and they need several work days to get that done. So I finished everything yesterday and ran it all over campus getting the signature I needed and getting to the grants office who would get the rest of the signatures. It's a pretty big grant, so it got a lot of good attention. I was held up by a number of details, including getting a letter of support from the organization that I'm working with. Lots of bureaucracy and sending stuff to the wrong email address. But they came through in the end!



I've got a few things to do in the coming weeks, but the next big push will be for the NCA submission deadline in Februrary. However, I'm trying to work on those things now so that I don't get snowed under at the last minute. My university always has internal grant applications due at or about the same time as the NCA deadline, so it's always a hectic time. I would say the first couple of weeks of February are the most predictably heavy times of the year for me, probably even more so that the end of semesters. So anyway, I'm trying to get ahead.



I'm also needing to spend some time this weekend catching up on blogs. I have several blogs that I try to follow, but I haven't checked my reader in more than a month. I shudder to think how many posts behind I am.