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July 3, 2008

Things are finally getting back to normal.

I feel better after a nasty cold/sore throat/lost voice a couple of weeks ago.

There’s only two more weeks of summer school teaching left!

I finished writing a grant that I had been working on for a few weeks. I’m trying to find ways to write (nearly) full time next year. This grant actually had a ‘first part’ to it. Or first round. And THAT took me several weeks as well, back in March. So I found out a month ago that I made it through the first round of the grant ‘auditions’– here’s what they said:

“Congratulations! We have reviewed your inquiry, and it is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit a full application.

2068 artists submitted Inquiry Forms in the three disciplines under review: Emerging Fields, Innovative Literature, and Performing Arts. Each inquiry was read by two distinguished arts professional from the designated discipline, helping us determine which 687 proposals to advance to the application stage.”

I was one of 2068 who sent in an the Inquiry Form and now i’m one of 687 who are moving to the next level–the Application Phase…!

Yay! I’d much rather be one of 687 than one of 2068. It just sounds better.

Ted wonderfully helped me with this second stage– where I had to give them a budget estimate for my project (my project being my new book), a work sample, and any update/changes on my project description.

I learned it’s not easy to write a budget. Ted’s good with numbers so he really helped out with that one.

I’ll keep you posted. AND I promise more posts now that that hurdle is jumped.

In the meantime, here is a picture of Ted and our cat, Betsy, that I snapped (more like snuck… he was completely asleep. snoring. they both were) yesterday morning.

Angels, aren’t they?

Ted and his baby.

Feel free to insert a caption of your own for the set of pictures!

Here’s mine:

Oh, Betsy. Let’s just say the apple doesn’t fall far from that tree…