![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Gentle Botswana fiction; NIH feedback; raccoons
Today was officially the last day of my vacation, not that I expect to get a whole lot done tomorrow. R. and I had lunch at what would be our neighborhood pub, if the U.S. had such things, and played three games of pool. I also read The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the whole thing, which was wonderfully restorative, and now I must read all the others. Six, I think. I've had a special feeling for Botswana since high school, as it was our assigned country in Model U.N.
We got the official critique of our NIH proposal today, so that we can revise it for resubmission in October. I was pleased that the very first sentence referred to our proposal as "extremely well written." I made a point not to read the comments carefully today, as that wouldn't be in the vacation spirit, but it seems that most of what we need to do is detail the psychometric properties of the survey items we intend to use at follow-up. We'll meet in August and plan the changes.
Oh, also - when I was driving to the library this morning, three small raccoons dashed single-file across the street, about a block from my house. Cute now, but by fall they may be into thuggish mischief.
We got the official critique of our NIH proposal today, so that we can revise it for resubmission in October. I was pleased that the very first sentence referred to our proposal as "extremely well written." I made a point not to read the comments carefully today, as that wouldn't be in the vacation spirit, but it seems that most of what we need to do is detail the psychometric properties of the survey items we intend to use at follow-up. We'll meet in August and plan the changes.
Oh, also - when I was driving to the library this morning, three small raccoons dashed single-file across the street, about a block from my house. Cute now, but by fall they may be into thuggish mischief.