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# Hallo!
Although in the original, the trolling cunts are man-made, not aliens.

What happened the other night? I thought the meet was on the 9th?
I've been so bloody busy with getting this f***ing proposal in I've not had time to catch up with Gronkers and yourself this week.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:26, archived)
# I messaged on thursday I think, and it was postponed for a little while
So I think it will get re-organised in a couple of weeks.

ARC grant? shiiiiiiit. :S
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:30, archived)
# The dreaded DECRA, breaker of careers.
200 places, over 2,000 applicants and USyd is being a bag of shit about it.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:33, archived)
# Uni is nearly always a bag of shit unless you're a Prof, with a shitload of grants already.
:(
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:38, archived)
# They've displayed a special level of cuntitude on this.
We'll probably have to move back to Blighty.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:45, archived)
# :( dare I ask?
Forced you to go alone on the grant? At which point you can still be stuffed even if you get the grant.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 8:50, archived)
# Not even that.
They're refusing to support more than a handful of applications. They cite the cost of funding the wages gap ($19,000/year), despite the fact that they get $125,000/year for any of us lucky enough to get in. The few who have got through fall into two camps: people who already have funding and can successfully use a loophole in the funding rules (which reduces the department's wages bill) and three poor fuckers who have to take big pay cuts and do 30% teaching. They decided my application was "not competitive", despite UNSW offerring me a stipend of $1,000 to submit it through them and Monash have jumped at the project and said very nice things about it.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 9:08, archived)
# Yeah it sucks when you end up getting the grant, but with no way of paying your wages.
are you submitting through either UNSW or Monash?
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 9:25, archived)
# Monash.
But I'll probably have to do a year in Blighty first. The timing's worked out badly on everything so far.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 9:34, archived)
# :( bugger.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 9:48, archived)
# There's a post I'm applying for at Herriot-Watt
which would cover the gap in work between the end of the current position and the potential start of a DECRA, but they won't pay any relocation allowance. Tight buggers.
(, Sat 7 May 2011, 9:50, archived)