I have spent three weeks on the job and Carmen had put a second grant folder on my desk without asking.
She just set it there while I was on the phone, Post-it on top, her handwriting: *you've got this.* She was already walking away by the time I finished the call. I peeled the Post-it off carefully and stuck it to the edge of my monitor next to the first one she had given me on day two, which said *coffee is in the back, don't let Marcus finish it first.*
I keep them both. I don't examine why.
The first application went out on a Tuesday. I had checked it four times and then made myself stop checking because there is a point past which reviewing your own work stops being diligence and starts becoming something else. Carmen signed off on it in under ten minutes, which either meant it was
