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I GOT THE SSHRC!!!
Okay, so y'know how I announced yesterday that I announced I was going to be doing a PhD? Well things just got a lot rosier!
I've been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral award! That's $20,000 a year for the next four years!
BETH IS A HAPPY CAT!
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The First in a Series of Announcements
It's official now (and has been for about a month)--I have been accepted into the University of Toronto Ph.D. program in English Literature ( Read more... ) -
Easter Bunions
I'm leaving for my parents' place this afternoon for Easter weekend (a three-hour drive from Toronto). My mother had bunion surgery a couple weeks ago, which involved breaking her foot in two places. She's recovering well and getting around on crutches, but obviously she hasn't been able to cook or clean the house since the operation, so she's ( Read more... ) -
*Finally* upgraded my livejournal account
My livejournal design was screaming "hey it's 1994 and I just got a geocities account!" so I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to SL2 (not sure why I held off for so long...that was perverse of me). I'll probably be playing with themes a lot until I get something I like ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Challenges I’ve Faced
First of all, I finally got my applications done and I can interact with the world again. Huzzah! Hopefully that means I'll be interacting more on LJ in the near future, so let's
My greatest challenge that I have encountered (thus far) would to be my trip to Europe after I graduated from university. After four years of specializing in Western ( Read more... ) -
Thoughtful Update
Has it really been twelve weeks since I updated this thing? I've been meaning to update my journal dozens of times, but it feels like in the past few months everything and nothing has been going on. So here's a quick summary:
We now have a cat!
Jeremy and I were talking about having a cat for a long time, and about two months ago we went to Toronto ( Read more... ) -
For WOW people...
I haven't played WOW in a dog's age, but I found this to be amusingly awesome
WOW Dance Emotes
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Thanks, AV Club!
"Another nice thing not mentioned is that something like a Business undergrad degree pegs you as the kind of mouth-breather who needed to get something practical and easy, where less immediately useful degrees (English, Philosophy, etc.) show a willingness to work hard and invest seriously in one's own intellect, something that many types of ( Read more... )
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