All getting a bit stressful

Only a week to go now til the deadline for submitting the funding proposal and it's all getting a bit stressful. The proposal itself is 99 per cent done, much better for the input of comments from other faculy members. But there are still other bits to do as we're using the Je-S online system to collate it all together. It will be great when it's gone off, but then I can worry about hearing the result...

At the same time, with the exact same deadline, I've had the first statistics assessment to do for the MSc. That's done now, but it's been tricky. Shame the MSc and the DPhil application process can't be better co-ordinated, seeing as the MSc is meant to be in preparation for carrying on etc. I should mention it to someone, but then everything to do with the admin of the MSc has been badly done in my view.

Then there's the qualitative assessment to start - the interviewing project. Hopefully doing two interviews the week after next. Another change of mental gear... but I'm looking forward to doing that project as it will make a change from statistics!