Tonights

Twilight made me want to vomit. I'm all about reading YA fiction and often do, but I'm too much of a feminist to encourage giving that kind of message (about what is and is not acceptable in relationships) to tweens. Speaking of, I am reading "Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era" by Michaela di Leonardo. And totally unrelated, I'm reading "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, which is hilarious, and "Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills" because the man and I are thinking of getting into some light duck husbandry when we move. (I love eggs, so we've been wanting to raise our own when we leave the city.)

In the US, we may be cutting mail down to five days a week instead of six days a week because the post office is struggling. What a cruel thing to do in notification season!

I hate Kate and Charlotte. I'm disappointed how there aren't any female characters on Lost that I really, really like. Maybe excepting Rose, but of course she's not a major player.

Exactly, it's gonna fly by. At least, I hope so. My sanity depends on it!

The Widmore revelation was absolutely staggering. I wonder if he did turn the donkey wheel and now he's been trying to figure out how to get back to the island ever since. I'm positive Mrs. Hawking is Daniel's mother. In the "enhanced" replay of last week's episodes that ABC aired last night, they revealed her first name as Eloise, which was also the name of Daniel's time-traveling rat.

Oh, sweet minty jesus. I don't know what I'll do if that happens to me.

I'm concerned about funding too, but I'm sure that if I get accepted somewhere (which is the first hurdle), I'll at least be given something and I'll be able to make up the rest with loans. It doesn't have to be a full ride as long as it's something, you know? Glad to see someone else trying with just a BA. I might be overly paranoid about it, but then again I'm overly paranoid about everything at this point in the game.

I'm toying with the idea of applying to a masters program with rolling admissions just in case. :X I'm having one of those days where I'm sure all eight of my schools will reject me (which is every day, now).

My life is considerably more carefree now than it will be in school. When I leave my job, I'm done, and free to do whatever I please without having to worry about writing papers or studying when I get home. But by that same token, I am tired all the time. I'm a night owl and sleep best from about 2 AM to 10 AM. I've been getting up at seven for the past year, and the weariness is really catching up with me. Secondly, I really loved going to class a few hours a day and being on my own schedule for the remainder of the day. I didn't care if I had long papers to do as long as I could do them at home and while wearing a pair of flannel PJ pants. My days felt longer when I was on that schedule. As it is now, I wear uncomfortable dress clothes and have to sit in the same place for eight hours a day. By the time I get home, the day is nearly over. I'm just not cut out for it. I know academia is where I belong.

Lost pretty much blew my mind last night. We should start a Lost thread on the OT board if there isn't one already.

Welcome, Flatcoat! How lucky that many of us have accommodating partners. I dreamed last night that I got an acceptance, and was very sad to wake up.

Wow. See, I want to go back to school partially because my 9-5 job makes me despair of life. More power to you that you can deal with that sort of environment.

I KNOW! Madagascar is totally the Holy Grail of Pandemic 2. I like to keep my disease free of actual symptoms until I have some good coverage going on.

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html Pandemic II, the game of creating your own disease and wiping out mankind. It's awesome.

My partner is totally pumped about moving somewhere where we'll get to see more snow. All of my possible schools are in the Northeast.

Agreed, Ewurgler. One acceptance and it'll erase the black pit of dread where my stomach used to be.

My partner is lucky enough to be leaving his job for a work-at-home job next month. So wherever I get accepted - even if it's State College or the moon - he'll be able to work from our home office there. Thank goodness. Me, him and the cats will just be able to pack up at a moment's notice whenever we find a place.

I agree, it's odd. We all take it as a given that the hard sciences will hear early and the social sciences and humanities have to wait longer, but I wonder why it is. Is it because those applications have to be approached more holistically, since they are focused less on numbers, scores and percentages and more on research proposals and statements? I have no idea. All I know is, it's giving me horrible blood pressure problems. *grins* Drizzly freezing rain here today. I almost fell on my butt several times while walking to work.

I'm only taking a year off and it wasn't by choice - it was financial necessity - so I'm not sure which to choose. I would have gone straight through if I'd had a grand for the application process as a senior in college. Alas!

Why thanks, Plisar! That's really nice of you! I will probably apply next year when I have a better focus on what I'm doing.

I miss school terribly. I'm working retail and I have a really great job, but I am really, really not cut out for anything other than academia (which, of course, is why I plan to go back and never leave).

Ah, you're talking about Schr

I make a great cold curry dipping sauce that I like with broiled chicken and seared tuna (and hell, pretzels and fresh veggies too). A cup of plain yogurt, three tablespoons of mayo, and three to four teaspoons of yellow curry powder. Mix well, stash in fridge. So easy and so delicious. No news for me today. Sigh.

If only there was some sort of technology to distribute cupcakes via the internet, we'd be all set. :wink: I also have a countdown widget to March 1 on my mac's dashboard, since that's the first day I'm going to realistically expect anything. No wrinkles yet, but grey hairs at 23! I am a horror film aficionado, and there's a whole bunch of 'em coming up this month and next, so I'm all set for distracting myself. Also, the new season of Lost sure helps!

I'm on gradcafe whenever I'm at the computer, which is most of the day since I'm on it at work as well. I go between checking for new messages and checking the results page. I look at my Gmail every couple of minutes. I've been baking a lot. In the past week I've made chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cupcakes, sugar cookies, soft pretzels and homemade rye bread. It's a wonder I still fit into my pants, but I find the mechanisms of baking very soothing, so it really helps me keep calm. Otherwise I ruminate on what I could have done to make my applications suck less. Oh! And horror movies, I've been watching a lot of foreign horror movies.