Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Prestigious grants not received, but unprestigious grants received!

I am happy to say that I received news today that I will receive the Anonymous Wine Importer Grant from a wine importing company that wishes to remain anonymous! I am also a finalist for a grant/loan from the Mom and Dad Center for the Study of Sexuality and German History.

And, my sister had these encouraging words: "You don't need a prestigious grant. You have money in your heart."

Encouraged, I've decided to stick around in this grad school racket at least until the end of the week.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi everyone, long-time reader, first-time poster, I love the blog. Anyway, my question is - are you intentionally choosing the worst possible quotes and then using them out of context to deliberately make your sister look bad? Also, which sister are we talking about here? Because she sounds mean and I am going to start rooting for your other sister (whichever one that turns out to be) in their yearly Crazy Eights tournament.

your small american said...

It is so a real grant. Ha!

Tom said...

How do you know you don't have money in your heart? Have you checked? Maybe it's a puzzle like in the DaVinci Code.

Do you have a heart-shaped pendant that was given to you as a child? Perhaps it contains a map to a secret meeting of pentacostal merchant marines. And once there you will become embroiled in a plot to protect/reveal/design a sitcom around the secret knowledge that God is really into freaky lesbian sex!

Maybe your sister is suggesting you get a grant from the merchant marines? Or their enemies?