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1. Three out of six grad school applications submitted -- the other three are due in January, so I can give myself a little bit of a break. What is really worrying me is that none of them are showing that my GRE scores have arrived -- like, my GRE scores have been my biggest fear all along, since they're right on the edge of being too old to pass ( Read more... ) -
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Every time I look at anything related to U.S. politics right now -- so basically every time I check Twitter, which I'm doing less often atm for Reasons -- I can't shake the feeling I'm living in a Tom Clancy novel, except that would actually be preferable since then there's a guarantee that the good guys come out on top. Also, as I think it was ( Read more... ) -
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I've spent all day feeling like I'm on the edge of having a screaming breakdown, for various reasons: the thing I'm only talking about under lock, my grad school applications, my fic, the weather, 8tracks' new listening limit, POLITICS, things I want to buy but am hesitating on, the season, and finally, the fact that Tumblr somehow did a thing ( Read more... ) -
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So far 2016 has destroyed my self-esteem, my self-confidence, my sense of self-worth, my faith in humanity, and my comfortable assumption that the world won't actually end in the next six months. And there's still three weeks left! Fun.
I did get this master's degree out of it, though, I guess that's something.
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Reading Wednesday
What I'm currently reading
I'm on a Barbara Hambly binge, so I'm rereading Dog Wizard -- actually the first or second Hambly book I ever read. (I either read this or Stranger at the Wedding first; I can't remember which since it was a few years ago. I didn't read The Silent Tower or The Silicon Mage until much later, and I don't know if I'll ( Read more... ) -
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1. I very seldom go to the movies, because it's a bit of a hassle and it's expensive and I don't really have the patience for movies, so I prefer to watch them on my computer where I can pause them and walk away if need be, but I went to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them weekend before last and Moana last weekend, and both movies were ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday reading meme
What I'm currently reading
I'm just finishing up a reread of Martha Wells' The Serpent Sea, and I'm still reading At Day's Close by A. Roger Ekirch. I've also started and put down a couple books since, so they're on the "sort of currently reading" list. I'm still stalled out on Ahsoka.
What I've just finished
For Rewatch I read Star Wars: ( Read more... ) -
Reading Wednesday
What I'm currently reading
I've been wanting to reread At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch for years (I originally read it when I was an undergrad), and I finally got a copy of it. I missed reading nonfiction so much, y'all -- there's nothing really stopping me from doing so, but I haven't done so in a few months now, and like ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday reading meme
What I'm currently reading:
I'm on a reread of Star Wars: Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston for Rewatch; I meant to go through this in one day but it's taking me longer, so at this point I'm just hoping to have it done by the end of the week.
I'm also rereading The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells, and another Martha Wells short story from her collection ( Read more... ) -
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Wow, I've never been so angry I'm literally dizzy before.
Someday someone is going to ask me how anyone could possibly relate to the Old Republic Jedi, and I'm going to be forced to answer "because I spend so much of my life training myself not to actively react emotionally to things that now I don't know how to do so in a healthy way ( Read more... )