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Mar. 4th, 2008 03:48 pmFun things that happened today:
1. I ran into another faculty member outside the grants administrator's office. This guy's known me since I was a predoctoral intern. I told him I had just gotten a grant.
"That's great," he said, smiling. "What kind?"
"An R21," I said.
"That's great!" he said, in a different voice. I saw respect in his eyes as he held out his hand to shake mine.
2. Lydia suggested that I submit an announcement about my grant to the Institute's Director of Marketing/PR Officer. By quick turnaround, he wrote back: "I'm submitting the item to SOM [School of Medicine] News, but I really need a photo of Rebecca ASAP ASAP. Please advise. If necessary, I can arrange for Rebecca to go to the SOM photographic services office, where a good head-and-shoulders photo can be made..."
So I went dashing across campus to sit for my official photo "ASAP ASAP." And you know what? It's kind of awesome. I'm so used to looking awful in pictures that this was a nice surprise. I mean, it's not gorgeous or glamorous, but it's a nice shot that looks like me and isn't all... red and toothy and weird. That's a rare experience. And it'll be so nice to have a good formal shot that I can use for official things like the faculty webpage I'm supposed to create.
3. I went to the supplies cupboard and got a nice new 2" 3-ring binder. Then I printed a label for it: "Antiretroviral Decision Making. R21 NR010687-01A1. Rebecca Wald, P.I." I am now engaged in the happy pursuit of deciding what I want my eight tabbed dividers to represent. Let's see... Correspondence with NIH, Correspondence with IRB, Certificate of Confidentiality, Budget & Purchasing, Subject Payments, Data Analysis Log, Abstracts and Publications, Incident Log...
This is so much fun.
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1. I ran into another faculty member outside the grants administrator's office. This guy's known me since I was a predoctoral intern. I told him I had just gotten a grant.
"That's great," he said, smiling. "What kind?"
"An R21," I said.
"That's great!" he said, in a different voice. I saw respect in his eyes as he held out his hand to shake mine.
2. Lydia suggested that I submit an announcement about my grant to the Institute's Director of Marketing/PR Officer. By quick turnaround, he wrote back: "I'm submitting the item to SOM [School of Medicine] News, but I really need a photo of Rebecca ASAP ASAP. Please advise. If necessary, I can arrange for Rebecca to go to the SOM photographic services office, where a good head-and-shoulders photo can be made..."
So I went dashing across campus to sit for my official photo "ASAP ASAP." And you know what? It's kind of awesome. I'm so used to looking awful in pictures that this was a nice surprise. I mean, it's not gorgeous or glamorous, but it's a nice shot that looks like me and isn't all... red and toothy and weird. That's a rare experience. And it'll be so nice to have a good formal shot that I can use for official things like the faculty webpage I'm supposed to create.
3. I went to the supplies cupboard and got a nice new 2" 3-ring binder. Then I printed a label for it: "Antiretroviral Decision Making. R21 NR010687-01A1. Rebecca Wald, P.I." I am now engaged in the happy pursuit of deciding what I want my eight tabbed dividers to represent. Let's see... Correspondence with NIH, Correspondence with IRB, Certificate of Confidentiality, Budget & Purchasing, Subject Payments, Data Analysis Log, Abstracts and Publications, Incident Log...
This is so much fun.
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