
Some sections of the department use the APA stylesheet, which I believe completely forbids the passive. Stupid.
The gerund and participle (yes, they are different!

"I'm currently running a series of simulations of blah blah blah."
"I run computer simulations of blah blah blah for a living."
(Oh, by the way, got "Safari could not open the page “http://bb.solahpmo.com/posting.php?mode=reply&t=976” because the server is not responding." when I first tried posting this.
