Back in Philly doing the apartment hunt--and I've found one. Yay me. Anyone in the area reading this, if you want to rock, Priscilla Queen of the Desert's playing tonight. Drop me a message. Maybe I'll have that wireless thing figured out by then.

Via the Bulldada News Blog:

Saint George Carlin's soul has been flung up onto a roof somewhere. The National Cynical Network is broadcasting a tribute: [1]

"I'm a little bit like herpes, I keep coming back." -George Carlin

Just a quick, final final update. Saint Mary's offered me a slot and I turned them down because I've accepted it at Temple. Look at that list though. The bottom three, in alphabetical order, all accepted me. That's a bit of an odd distribution. Still, exciting. Hopefully I'll be getting my orientation packet soon. I'm actually very nervous about ( Read more... )

Just for the sake of completeness. Received the official rejection from U. Alaska. Don't care. Got rejected from the University of Houston which is neither here nor there but I keep getting emails from their financial aid department telling me to fill out more forms so I can get all of my financial aid. That's an odd records system. They are ( Read more... )

Two weeks and there's some news to report as the little list below indicates. First the good news: the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine accepted me. It was kind of hard to tell them "no." Temple's the place, no question, no doubts, but USM had a semester abroad in Ireland. I offer this as proof of a karmic conspiracy ( Read more... )

Another letter, another rejection, this time from the University of New Mexico and I have to note that this is the worst rejection letter I've ever received. I don't know why some of these letters are so poorly-composed (I had the same reaction to bad rejection letters from agents)--you work with writers, why couldn't you do this right?It is a form ( Read more... )

Two more letters arrived today. The first came from the University of British Columbia (whose name I've been spelling wrong in these posts). It was just the official notice that I had not been accepted into their program. They'd sent me an email earlier when the decision was made, which I must note is a good system. University of Texas did the same ( Read more... )

Texas had their primary and caucus today. Yes, both, which makes Texas unique and weird in its own special way, which is kind of what Texas does. Texas has early voting so, about two weeks ago, I went down to the Community Center to pull the virtual lever for Obama (and a long list of other candidates in other races that I had been completely ( Read more... )

Got another letter in the mail today which means another update on my graduate school application process ( Read more... )

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