The same week that I was overwhelmed with feelings of general uselessness, I was nominated for our department’s Ali G award.
This award is for people in the department who go above and beyond to make it a better place. It’s named after a colleague of mine who trained with me. He was the loveliest, sweetest, funniest person you could ever meet. He killed himself about five years ago.
It’s for my newsletter editorials, in which I usually document the events of the previous week. Needless to say, I don’t take the opportunity to do any self aggrandizing! You’ll gather the tone is much like this blog. It seems schadenfreude is alive and well! But lovely to be recognized.