Welcome back! Yes, life has been a bit challenging for me in the past few months. It's been pretty amazing. What's new with you?

Oh god, like EVERYONE ELSE I KNOW AT EVERY SINGLE INSTITUTION ACROSS THE NATION, I'm going after stimulus $$. I'm submitting a challenge grant and a supplement to my R01. I'm hoping to get these in a week before their due dates (ha, I hope) because I know the NIH site is going to crash on the actual due dates (it's electronic submission - I don't know if you're in a field that makes you familiar with this process or not!). And you?

Oh yeah, I've got stimulus fatigue too. I heard that NIH got 30,000 applications for challenge grants. Hell, with those odds, I should just play the lottery. It'd be a lot less effort!