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[rivka]

Fun 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.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

What a lovely photo!! Congratulations again. :)

Kenora

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

A nice photo indeed. That never happens on the spur of the moment. Also, I just noticed your icon. Very cool.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I'm just grateful I was wearing business clothes today. I don't always, on Tuesdays.

ratphooey helped me with the icon! I am so pleased with it.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Woo! Impressing people who've known you since sprathood is _so_ much fun, isn't it?

And that's a really nice picture. You look eminently respectable, and utterly worthy of handling my tax dollars.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It's a sad commentary when "respectable" is what we aim for when having a picture taken, isn't it?

I just realized that my grey hairs are clearly visible in that photo. Totally old enough to be entrusted with your tax dollars.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Gray hairs? You must know where to look. I don't see any.

[brooksmoses]

I see three or four, I think. They look like highlights unless you're looking really closely for them.

It is, indeed, a really good "professional" picture.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

And here I was thinking how *young* you looked in that picture. : ) Not that that's a *bad* thing... It's a great picture, Rivka.

Not!

[dragon3.livejournal.com]

If there's grey hair in that photo, then I had better get a new prescription for my glasses. My first impression was that you look much younger and prettier than most of the PIs I know. Subsequent review confirms it. You also look respectable and competent and that's a lot to pack into one photo.

Congratulations on getting things fully landed and making the grant go!

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

It is indeed a lovely photo. And I am smiling and giggling over the sense of exuberance and joy coming through your post! (It was the bit about deciding what the tabs should be that really got me going.)

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!!! Go you!

[kaitiana.livejournal.com]

Great photo. Your hair looks cute!

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Very nice. You look like a real grownup.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

heeee! so much fun - and the photo looks great!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a wonderful picture!

And congratulations again!

[ckd]

That's a great photo!

[ailbhe]

That photo is so very... grown up. Oddly, the ones where you're goofing around with Alex don't look so grown up. Because of the colouring, I bet this one actually gives me a better idea of who to look out for at the airport when we come though.

How do you make your hair behave? It looks very very tidy.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

He had very flattering lighting. I've usually got pinker skin and browner hair than this.

How do you make your hair behave? It looks very very tidy.

The sum total of what I do with my hair: wash and condition it every other day (not today), blow dry until damp-ish, brush with a coated wire brush. I am as low-maintenance with appearance stuff as I could possibly be. My hairdresser is a very talented man.

[ailbhe]

Oh, right. So fluorescent-lit bleach effect will be different.

We'll just have to wear signs.

(And re: hair... I might see if I can find my hairdryer. It migh thelp. Hmm.)

[redbird]

Cool. That photo looks almost as good as you did in person two months ago.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Having a binder and the first pass at a filing system makes it much more real. I don't know why, but the world seems to work like that.

Photos

[hazelchaz]

I love the photo. You're grinning, but not too much for an official snap.

[boxofdelights]

Aw, you're all grown up!

[suzilem.livejournal.com]

That is a LOVELY portrait! (and congratulations!)

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations!

You look great in that picture.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

SO happy for you!!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Excellent photo! And the perfect top to be wearing for it!

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

That is a very nice picture.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, that's very exciting. :D

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Great photo. My best photos are always with a v-neck collar, too.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Wow! I can't get over how sleek and glossy your hair looks in the photo! The lighting is fantastic. I also like that the photo shows some of your life & happiness - you're smiling with your eyes as well as your mouth.

Also, you look like my stereotype of A Real Scientist (which is actually quite complimentary, considering that I Do Science).

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

All that work leading to you getting to do something worthwhile and fulfilling... and other people get excited about your excellent work and huge accomplishment too?

Tabs ahoy, lady - onward with your bad self.