Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Grants require blood, sweat, and tears....and more blood?

No, really.

At 3 am some day early last week, I was working on a draft of my latest grant.  I was editing by hand at a fairly good pace (especially given the hour) when a spot on the paper made me pause.

Hmmm...  I peered at the reddish pink ink smudge.   I wiped at it with my forefinger, but I only smudged it worse.  Another spot on my grant smeared in a similar fashion.

I turned my palm over to see if ink was on my hand (although I was marking in blue ink, not in red).  That's when I realized I had a fairly nasty paper cut that was slowly but methodically dripping blood onto my grant.

Brings a whole new meeting to bleeding for your work, huh?