so. annoyed. or: i knew i should have applied last year

Help me out, here, kids. The feds want to repurpose the SSHRC grants to make them business-oriented.

The SSHRC is the only grant of any size I've found that's available to me as a grad student in English. It already covers all of the social sciences and all of the humanities (the NSERC covers natural sciences and engineering.) Economics is in there as a perfectly respectable segment of the population. It's just not King of All the Money.

Please go here and sign this: SSHRC petition.

If you don't like me, do it for the sociologists. If you don't like them, do it for the historians.

Perhaps you support the study of languages. Theology? Psychology?

Teachers? Maybe you like teachers? Anthropologists? Philosophers? No, me neither. But political scientists. I know you like them. I've seen you at parties.

Really, though, do it for me.

This feels like when we all worked for That Place and they could not understand that not every employee has to be in sales.

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* I know this isn' exactly the most pressing issue of our time, but it is DEEPLY ANNOYING TO THE SPIRIT.

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I was going to continue the series of anecodotes about why I might have Issues around educational access, but then Linabeet played me the Flight of the Conchords' ballad "I've Got Hurt Feelings" and I just couldn't.

I think we're all relieved. There's a particularly tragic narrative involving roses in a Slurpee(tm) cup, a ravine, a public swimming pool, and the BC Festival of the Arts.

I don't know, I thought they might add human interest or something.

Extraterrestrial interest, that's more to the point. Maybe they'll give me a grant. Maybe crop circles are actually instructions for interstellar grant applications. We keep missing the deadline and they keep re-sending the form.

Maybe it's late and I should attempt to accomplish sleep.

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