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Friday, October 02, 2009
| THANK GOD September is over. With two major scholarship applications out of the way, and grad school applications not due for another two months, I can actually concentrate on my schoolwork, finally. I might even do some fleshing out of my thesis topic. Good God I have not had time to breathe for three weeks. Last night I actually read for pleasure, for like an entire half hour. If I weren't playing Ultimate Frisbee, I would have exploded by now. And gained one hundred pounds from stress eating. All I can say is that I am drinking tonight and I fucking deserve it. | |
Thursday, August 27, 2009
| I AM STRESSED OUT. It's only the first week of school. Ugh ugh. | |
Sunday, July 19, 2009
| My parents are flying into Little Rock tomorrow and so today is Cleaning Day as well as Making-Sure-My-Dad-Can't-Tell-That-A-Boy-Lives-With-Me Day. Hoorah? They're spending the day in Little Rock/Conway, and then on Tuesday we're driving to Altus, the Arkansas wine country, and then onto Eureka Springs where we're staying in a nice cabin. I imagine we'll try to go kayaking or swimming, and probably go to the nice unique shops in downtown, and probably go see the seven-story-tall Jesus statue. C'mon, it is Arkansas after all. Meanwhile, I am getting freaked out about my thesis. An intensive study of the diction in Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence... or something. | |
Saturday, July 11, 2009
| I am a little worried about the future. I have been studying GRE vocabulary and researching graduate schools and it is nerve-wracking. I have to write a 'statement of intent' and an 'intellectual autobiography' to submit with my applications and I have no idea exactly what my 'intent' really is at this point. I feel like I might like to go into publishing or editing, but I don't really know what those careers consist of anyway--nor do I know how one goes about getting into them. I have a tentative list thus far. (English Literature MA)
Fordham University (January 4) Boston College (January 2) University of Virginia (January 2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (December 17) University of Washington in Seattle (January 2) Indiana University (January 1) Carnegie Mellon (February 15) University of Oregon (December 15)
(English Literature PhD) Washington University in St. Louis (January 2) Rice (January 15)
(MFA- Screenwriting) USC (December 1) Also I want to apply to 2-3 schools in England. I guess I'll look into that soon. Those are all the application deadlines. I'm taking the GRE in September and the Literature Subject Test in October. Meanwhile, I have to write a thesis this year. I'm supposed to know by mid-September what text I want to write on and have an idea of what I want to write on about it. Ugh. And I'm still unemployed. | |
Thursday, April 02, 2009
| I have 4 classes, 2 each day. Etymology: the study of words, basically. Before spring break we studied Latin stems and roots, now for the second half of the semester we're learning Greek ones. Which is, you know, fine, since I took 3 semesters of Greek and pretty much know what's up. Creative Nonfiction: I have to produce 3 separate creative nonfiction essays by the end of April, although technically I have drafts of them due here and there. My three pieces tend to have a memoir tint to them. One is about London through 5 tube stations, and the one I'm working on right now is my odd tendency to steal and wear the clothes of boys I am close to. American Modernism: we read American Modernist texts and discuss them. Experimental British Fiction: same as above, only, you know, Experimental British texts Right this second I do not feel particularly motivated to do any of my homework for tomorrow because either it does not particularly interest me (read: looking up every single word of a sonnet and tracing its etymological origin) or it involves me having to walk to the library to use the computer lab (read: print and read two critical articles on Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!) . Mostly just want to... eat. Eat pizza. A lot of it. | |
