silent sigh

So, here's a question. Why did I not do the things I needed to do over the weekend? Here's another question. What was I thinking?? For the love. Oh well, that means there will be lots of library time in my future. Thanksgiving break, by the way, was delightful, delicious, delectible. And if I could rewind, I still wouldn't do my homework.

We painted D and A's house. It looks fantastic. We had a little bit of a paint crisis, but it ended up great with oat and roast. I hate filbert. Blech.

letters revisited

Why is the internet such a pain in the batoosh? I got my other two packets to my letter writers today, and have been trying and trying to submit them as online recommenders, and EVERY website has been down! It's driving me crazy.

It feels great, though, to be on break. I ran into one of my students today, and I think we're both really happy that I cancelled class.

Now I need to start writing my statement of intent. I sort of know what I'm going to say, but it's all about getting started. I have writers fear. I'm planning on starting with my popculture story--where the lady told me to slow down, and then I got grilled at the end. It was SO funny!

changes

I suppose I should mention that since Wales is over I think I'll use the blog for more mundane posts. It seems a shame for all this great computer space to go to waste, so I plan to now post about more every day things...grad school, papers, teaching, school, things of that nature. So we may not get as many wild pictures (I'll see what I can do), but at least I'll have a vent spot.

schools finally

You know, this grad school application thing gets tiring! And it makes me crave going out to dinner rather than going home and cooking myself something. Whatever. Panda Express sounds good. Or Thai food. Or maybe Zupas. So, today I've been gather letter of recommendation stuff and compiling folders. Cutchins's is all done and sitting outside of his office. It took about a million hours to find it all. Now I have to get Matt and Nick's together. I also finally compiled a final list of schools: (!)

U Penn
Indiana
NYU
UW
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
U of Colorado
SUNY Stony Brook
U of South Carolina

I'm pretty excited about all of them. Getting into my top will be nothing short of miraculous. But hey, I believe.