The approval for the second year of my NSF grant just came through. This wasn't really in doubt, but it's nice to have confirmation that the thirty-odd thousand dollars I was counting on to run the next year of the experiment will actually, you know, be available when I start sending purchase orders out for stuff in a week or two...
Not to mention the summer salary that's part of the package...
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