Grant awarded, yay!

[jay]

I may be a hopeless loser in some social realms, but at least I can conduct research pretty well... waiting in my inbox at work this morning is a congratulatory letter from the Office of Space Science, notifying me that my proposed automated Mars drilling project has been accepted at a level of $1.3M over three years, 2003-05. That's excellent news, and also gives me ammunition for claiming more people and higher status as I move into a new department this month at work :-).

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yay! (Mostly joking: I don't suppose you need a new secretary? :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grin) I wish... my division has 400+ people and $60M in annual income -- with only two highly-multiplexed secretaries/AAs. We scientists and engineers have do do everything ourselves, in practice. Even though I only type 5 wpm. (this reply took me 5 minutes...)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. If I typed 5wpm, I would be on the lookout for a good voice recognition program. :-)