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[rivka]

I finally got an account number for my new grant!

That means that I get to start buying stuff now. Like computers. We've been anxiously hovering over our e-mail, waiting to hear from the Business Office, because the word is that starting June 1st you won't be able to buy a PC with Windows XP on it anymore. And I'm damned if I'm going to run Vista.

On my shopping list: a desktop and a laptop for me. A desktop for Steve, who is my right-hand man on this grant. 24-inch monitors for both of us. I've got $3000 budgeted for "office supplies" - that buys an awful lot of file folders and pens. Let's see... a cashbox. Thumb drives. Software? A fun twirly office-supplies organizer? Some of the supplies money will have to go for postage, thanks to a fairly ridiculous IRB call.

I have no idea how to spend $3000 on office supplies. What a lovely problem to have.

(Sorry, don't mind me. This is the first time I've ever had untrammelled purchasing power, and it's going to my head a bit.)

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Poster preparation is a separate line item, actually. I've got $500 budgeted a year, which covers about 2.5 posters.

I'm still waiting for the unit coordinator to get back to me about the postage issue. She's not sure how they'll want to handle having me send out a few hundred letters.

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

A flatbed scanner might be a handy thing to have, especially if it has decent OCR capability. While we mostly use our copier/scanner/fax here in the office to do this, it's sometimes really handy to just scan an invoice or something similar, and email the PDF to whoever needs it, or just to keep it for archival purposes.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

A flatbed scanner is an awesome idea, especially because we don't have a copier/scanner/fax. Thanks!