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congrats to both of you. Maybe they had more funds come available, or maybe some people turned down the offer. Either way I hope you both get passed through. As a fellow geographer I wish geografo the best of luck.

yeah i imagine they are going to encounter a lot of questions like that and will probably have to come up with an ad-hoc policy. I was in the field for 3 months before I had to come back to teach.

what were you going to do about money if the Mellon funding hadn't worked out?

Hey Dando why don't you ask them if they can make your award retroactive a couple of months? Given the date of the announcement, they might be able to do that. Mine was cut from $27k to $21.1k. I'm very thankful as well because I was going to go ahead and do my work with some small grants I got and with money I earned from teaching the summer session and doing construction work. After the cancellation notice I took on this extra work as plan C (plan b fell through as well). I am wondering if any of the earlier participants in the conversation have received word yet?

I'm glad I could make you smile. I just received notification of my award today as well.

It was a joke. I know the term "franking machine" because I was in Lebanon once about 9 years ago and I wanted to send a postcard. I asked the clerk at the PO if he knew how many stamps I needed, and he said in very broken English (obviously this was one of the only phrases he knew) "No stamp. I have franking machine."

Good for you, Eremita. Congrats and thanks for posting your info. But I think the question that's on everyone's mind is about the postage. Did they use one of those forever first class stamps, or was the letter metered with a pitney bowes franking machine?

What was in the envelope?

Ah, if this is the worst thing about living in Hawai'i, I'll take it any day of the week. This whole process has actually strengthened my conviction that a good sense of humor is one of the most important "tools" you can equip yourself with. As for Theresa, transdimensional being or not, I'm pretty sure she's been inundated with all sorts of emails over the past two weeks, so I would imagine she knows how we feel.

Maybe this theresa is a being from another dimension and thus doesn't have any real sense of linear time.

It might matter if Olympia is under pressure to make some other decision where the total amount of the fulbright award could influence the decision.

what kind of vehicle did you want?

Don't you guys know by now that these types of things take as long as they possibly can ... There's probably going to be some sort of postal workers' strike tomorrow. Either that or the insurgents will blow up the railroad tracks, causing the train carrying the notification letters to go crashing into the ravine.

I guess I don't follow your logic.

Are you suggesting that well over half the original awardees could be anthropology folks? I don't believe that could possibly be so.