:(

Slashed...

(Edit: And like last month's other Life Baddie, this doesn't seem so bad at all first hand as 1) it was not caused directly per my incompetence (funding in research is an unstable thing) although I'm sure if I were really really efficient, they'd hypothetically find a way to keep me - the self-depreciating self talking - and that 2) it opens up new opportunities I never would've thought 'honourable' pursuing. That is my philosophical take on being slashed... Yeah. Good lord. but I guess the emoticon is truthfully a vast overstatement right now.)