Bureacracy
No I haven’t been on holiday – although i did spend four days last week at the Cambridge festival (more on that soon).
Instead my excuse for no postings this week is taht I have been bogged down in bureacracy – doing the books. Pontydysgu is a small organisation and we cannot afford a full time adminsitrator. Hence, in addtion to my preferred job title as senior researcher, I also double up as office cleaner and administrator. And, I have to admit, I had taken my eye off the ball for a few months. So the result was a week of spreadsheets and filing. I know soem people like this work but I hate it. I don’t find it creative in any way – and to write in a blog you have to ‘think creative’.
One of the particular curses in our work and funding model is filing reports to the European Commision on collaborative projects. The various agencies responsible for checking these reports always seem to find soemthing wrong. This weeks gem was a request for an equivalent cost for transport from Luxembourg to the UK. Since Luxembourg was not a partner in the project they could not pay the real cost but only equivalents. And my crime had been to file them tickets with real costs. Hm…..
