I did it!!! I finished for the most part at 2:30 this morning. I had to stop because I had to switch between computers to find ancient samples and then this computer wouldn't let me log in again so I needed SP to help.
Now I'm off to work and to deliver this document. At one o'clock in the morning after killing a small forest I read that I had to write an intention of my committment to sustainability. I have no words on this. But of course I did last night.
later my faithful readers.
5 comments:
Congrats on being almost done (maybe by now it IS done)... though you've been a little cryptic as to what this IS... is it a manuscript or some other variety of project?
Anyway--WELL DONE!
Wow, I sympathise! When I ran a theatre company I was the lucky soul responsible for filling out the government grant applications. Grrrr. SO glad that's done.
Elspeth
Hi Watery
tart and Elspeth, WT - what I was working on is called an application for a standing offer. That means that if someone in the govt. is looking for someone to write a brochure or guide book or so on, they have a bunch of writers who've prepared all this gahooey that basically says - yah, I'm good, this is what I charge and I won't go changing on ya. Trouble is that they need a big time plain language edit because the stuff is very hard to penetrate - byzantine you might say - Hogwarts if the bad guys took over.
Elspeth - I am the FORMER queen of grant applications but no more. I don't like the ever widening hoops. I want to write books and grow peaches and find Buddha on my own! I'm so tired I couldn't spit! I'm going to go lie down while my SP makes me a stew I can eat! Yay - thickened with spelt flour. yummy!
I seem to have become the defacto official grant writer for my organisation, and I rather like it as of now. But six months later, I wonder if I am still going to say that!
Congratulations, all the same. And you will find Buddha on your own. Or rather, he'll find you. Isn't that how it often happens?
Hi Rayna - my peach and buddha reference is from this John Prine song...
Blow Up Your TV (Prine)
She was a levelheaded dancer on the road to alcohol,
I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal.
Well, she pressed her chest against me about the time the jukebox broke.
She gave me a peck on the back of the neck, and these are the words she spoke.
Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home.
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own.
I sat there at the table, and I acted real naïve.
Cause I knew that topless lady, she had something up her sleeve.
She danced around the room awhile and she did the hoochy coo.
Yeah, singing a song all night long, telling me what to do.
Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home.
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own.
Well, I was young and hungry, and about to leave that place.
Just as I was going. she looked me in the face.
I said "You must know the answer," she said "No, but I'll give it a try."
To this day we've been living our way, here is the reason why.
We blew up your TV, threw away your paper, went to the country, build us a home.
Had a lot of children, fed ‘em on peaches, they all found Jesus on their own.
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