In Which I Share Great News

First of all, you guys are AMAZING! In the past 48 hours my e-mail has been filled with votes for your favorite titles! Thank you all! Also in that time, my blog has had more views than it's ever seen before! To give you an idea, I have a chart at the top of the column to the right; see that big tall spike? The only one on the chart? Yeah, that's you guys. In the past two days my blog has had (I'm guessing) 5x the amount of views any post has ever gotten! I'm so thrilled (note the excessive use of exclamation marks)!

In other, also great, news, I received a wonderful letter today announcing that I will receive a grant from the Westminster Cultural Council! I applied for this grant as part of a class assignment (for Writing for Business and Technology (Hi Dr. Martyniuk!)) in which I had to find a grant that I qualified for, and write a mock application letter on behalf of a certain cause. I chose to write to the Westminster Cultural Council and asked for money to help frame my artwork for the show. It just so happened that the deadline for ACTUAL applications was the very week this project was assigned! After taking my completed letter to class on a Friday, I spent the next night completing the application and creating a budget (I didn't have one) so that I could drop the application off on Saturday morning at the last possible minute. What have I learned from this experience? That when writing a grant application, it pays to stay up until 5am on a Saturday morning. Literally.

A big "Thank You!" to the Westminster Cultural Council who took the time to read over my application and help fund my project!