The Phases of Grant Writing

[logisticslad]

I've worked hard all week on my grant that is due on Wed and spent most of today at work with my grad students slaving over it. I managed to pound it into a semi-coherent form so that I was not embarrassed to send it to several of my colleagues for feedback on the full draft. I'm definitely progressing from the "everything I write is crap" phase to the "I must reward myself with an expensive toy" phase. I'm thinking it might be time to buy a Tivo. The next phase is "I am God's gift to grant writing and how dare they not fund me!" I look forward to reaching that phase :-)

I also called in a favor to ask one of my colleagues to give my evening Board review lecture the night before my grant was due. And I managed to sweet talk the Office into giving me an extension on grading the essay exams from the 50 med students that were due this week. It looks like my second grant due in mid Feb will be a lot easier to write, since it will be education focused rather than research focused.


So any advice on Tivo models or service, if I do go ahead with my phase 2 reward???

Comments

[rabidotter.livejournal.com]

We had a TiVo when we lived in the US, and it rocked. In Canada, there are only lame substitutes, and we miss many more programs and the whole programming process is much more labor intensive.

I, however, am not the one in charge of the remotes or things attached to them, so I cannt say much beyond that.

Yea-rah on the grant writing, by the way!