Another day, another proposal

[happychemist]

William Darcy: I don't see why we're taking this sloppy approach. We can watch for electron hopping on the rhenium system.
Elizabeth Bennet: But the rhenium system is optically silent. We won't get the full story and we'll have to do these studies anyway.
William Darcy: We can still publish on the rhenium.
Elizabeth Bennet: Why hit a single when we can get the homerun?
William Darcy: ...because the single is a sure thing.
Elizabeth Bennet: Wuss.
William Darcy: Fruitcake.
Hurst: Fruitcake, where?

Finished writing my 27-page progress report. It's now being read over by my colleagues and I'm supposed to be working on those research proposals that I have yet to write.

But I'm nervous. What if they read it and find it wanting?

*gah* let it go, C. Let's move on. Medium dynamics! Onwards!

Comments

Onward!

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Up you get! Okay, shoes on. Right, off you go then. Medium dynamics.

Good for you for finishing it! If they find it wanting (little chance), you fix it. In the meantime... medium dynamics!

LOL @ Hurst!

[the-marchioness.livejournal.com]

Congrats on completing your progress report! Don't worry about whether they'll find it wanting, Crystal. After all, why worry about something you have no control over, right?

But if they do think you could add a little bit more, well then you'll just truck along like your good old self and add more. It won't be so bad. It's happened to my sister plenty of times whenever whe's submitted a paper for publication, and I've heard her complain about it every single time, but it always works out.

In the meantime, why not take some of that nervous energy out on your characters in the lab? *wink*