Shirking SSHRC

Nothing has changed over the past three days, really. SSHRC and OGS are still driving me absolutely crazy. I decided that I would organize a peer review with two of my friends (from other schools, no chance of them stealing my brilliant ideas that way). We met up at Laurier's grad pub. But before reading each others' proposals, we decided to go get some dinner (can't think on an empty stomach...). After sitting down to dinner, we exchanged proposals. Perhaps because we're all at the same level, or perhaps because we're all too polite, none of us had any criticism. It became an occasion for ego-stroking. "Wow, your proposal is SO good, I can't see why they wouldn't fund this," etc. At least it forced me to get some revision done.

After this uselessness, we went out for a drink to numb the pain of external funding application processes. One drink turned into two, and two turned into several, and before I knew it, it was last call and I was cursing this peer review, which had digressed into a beer review.

So now I am sitting here writing this, putting off further revisions to OGS and/or SSHRC, and hoping that I'll have an epiphany about what I can change so that the adjudicators of these competitions think my project has "merit" and is "worthy." Hmmm...