the never ending story

went to another grant writing presentation today. with the same old desperate people as last time... quite interesting though, because the presenter gave us some handouts, and one in particular where she had started with a conference proposal, then an article proposal from the conference, then a book chapter proposal from that article, and then the actual chapter of the book, also with the letters she had sent to editors and stuff like that. all on the same topic taken from her dissertation... gave me some ideas about how it works and what can be done. she said after the book, though, she started working on a new project because she had pretty much used up all the ideas from that topic.

so we had hackers into purdue's system yesterday, that's what caused the big mess... and of course, i should have predicted this, it messed up my blog, the other one. lost my october archive page.... so right now i'm backuping ALL the stuff i have on purdue's server on my yahoo server which recently gave us 4.000 MB of space (instead of the 100 original MB!!!). thinking of publishing my blog on yahoo's server too, but i have more than 200 visits on my blog per day and changing address would mess this up big time. good thing this one is published on blogger's server. not much safer, but simpler!

haven't written a work on my prospectus drafts this week... every day i would start at 10am and come back home from class or work at 11pm... so i'm REALLY tired... and i have no inspiration anyway... will need to get back to it this weekend! ...