Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Two things that fall into the general category of mixed blessings

1) Discovering that the edited collection you sent an abstract off to and then forgot about has, in fact, found a publisher. And oh yeah, the deadline to submit the final version of the essay is in six weeks...

2) Learning that the QEP proposal you wrote six months ago has, in fact, won your university's QEP competition, and you are cordially invited (read: obligated) to join the committee that is supposed to figure out how to execute it. (There is, thank God, a small amount of cash involved. Otherwise, I might be inclined to think of this one as an unmixed curse.)

I am not sure whether I should be celebrating or hiding under the bed.

3 comments:

Fie upon this quiet life! said...

This is all good stuff, but it requires a lot of work. You can do it! Good luck! And congrats on winning the QEP competition. Now THAT sounds like a TON of work. (Glad there's money involved.)

Sisyphus said...

Why can't you do both? Celebrate (very quietly) while under the bed!

I hope the celebration involves cake and beer, if only for the visual effect.

Fretful Porpentine said...

Alas, I have no cake!