Typhus Again

Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was plagued (sorry!) by Typhus

Yet another grant deadline is looming so there will be no more posts until after next Tuesday. I'm once again confronting Rickettsial disease. This age old scourge includes the epidemic typhus group of bacteria: fascinating bugs and nasty pieces of work to boot. Have a great weekend and wish me luck, you know what I'll be doing...

Got It (the Grant Not the Disease)!

Well the email inpile was not quite as bad as I'd imagined. One of the messages was a notice for a grant award to study typhus. This seems like a little bit of compensation for spending last year's Thanksgiving holiday slaving over a hot laptop preparing an application that was subsequently rejected like a piece of discarded chewing gum. Devotees of this site may recall (don't feel bad if you didn't: I had to search for the post) that I submitted a modified re-application in June. Well the pain was worth it. Apparently funds will be released in about two weeks so now I'll have to get my arse rear end in gear to get the work done. There's absolutely no breathing space here. Oh well, it's better to be busy...

Hooray!