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Sometimes Mandated Work Fun is... Fun?

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Friends, I join you now, in the land of the living, having spent the last two weeks traversing grant hell. Eight deadlines parked themselves right beside each other in the span of four days. My brain was functioning, but only just barely. If you have the opportunity to cram all your work deadlines into one week... I would not recommend it.  BUT! Before grant hell, there was a hallowed and sacred event* for the development department...  SLIDERFEST 2024! ~que air horns and massive pyrotechnics ~   What's Sliderfest you may ask?  A work event, put on our calendars two weeks in advance, where everyone makes a bunch of tiny sandwiches- duh!  And yes there was decor.  The competition was fierce and also unexpected. Did we know going into this innocuous day of delicious dishes that we were about to enter into a cutthroat battle for a scratchy, felt, burger-shaped hat? No. Did that lessen our fighting spirit? No, I don't think so.  The contenders were as follows: Bagel Sliders from Je