Day One Hundred and Seventy-Four - Lovin' Don't Pay My Bills

I promise to not have too many work-related things on here as it doesn't feel quite right to me. I mean, I'm not doing these things because of my own initiative and I'm getting paid to do them...I dunno. Also, I don't want to risk boring my captive audience - because, I mean...my stories about soup are obviously endlessly fascinating. However, my boss made a slightly big deal about me doing this for the first time, so I'm going to say it officially counts.

Today I reviewed my first grant proposal. This is one of those things were our organization kindly asks a corporation to fund us - generally for something specific, rather than a general donation. Obviously, I can't say too much about the contents of this as it's all confidential and understandably so. I wrote many-a proposal while @ my old job, but that was to propose our services in exchange for money [why does that sound so seemy when I say it that way?]. This is just asking for money in exchange for gratitude, a plaque [maybe?] and a general sense of well-being. Truthfully, I did not do much to the document. Just some minor spelling and grammatical corrections. However, if I choose to stay in development/fundraising it will be something I will be seeing for a long time to come. It's exciting to learn new things @ work, though [I could pretty much do my old job on auto-pilot] and to finally feel like I'm doing "something" [I have struggled to define what this might mean to me, but I think I'm getting closer].

[p.s. - internet is spotty @ best, so sorry about the lack of updates. i might get my own internets, but that won't happen for over a week. also, i have spring allergies like crazy and as a result i'm super cranky.]