First off, since I haven't updated in over a month, I need to do a quick catch-up since a lot has gone on. I don't think I ever mentioned in here that Brian applied to PhD programs this winter. He ended up going 2/3 on acceptances, with "yes's" from UMass Amherst and Brandeis and a "no" from UCLA. He was also supposed to apply to BU, but their ( Read more... )

The wonderful rejection process began in full swing last week. It started on Wednesday the 5th, when I got into work and found an automated email from UCLA that had been sent the night before (at 3:08am, no less) alerting me that "a decision" had been made and giving me a link to log in and access my application status "if I hadn't already done so ( Read more... )

First off, thanks to Pam for pointing this out to me. Apparently my pathetic little blog was quoted in an arts blog on the UK site The Guardian back on October 31. He quoted a bit from the entry I wrote back on October 7th in which I made a few offhanded comments about "NaPlWriMo," or National Playwriting Month. I am so incredibly embarrassed and a ( Read more... )

yay! As of this morning (well, yesterday morning now, since it's 12:40am), I am officially DONE with the grad school application process. donedonedonedonedonehappieyay. hehehe. I submitted BU's online portion of the application Thursday night, and Friday morning (today/technically yesterday) Brian dropped my big mail-in packet off in the mail. I'm ( Read more... )

I had to take the GRE today because BU requests test scores. Somehow my knowing how to do junior high and basic high school level math will prove I'm a better writer. And knowing the definitions of random "big words" shows that I know how to write plays. Whatever. I only needed the results  for this one school, but since I'll probably have to ( Read more... )

(*Edited 2/23/08 8:38pm because I forgot to include the song that was stuck in my head as I originally wrote this.)

Sooooo sleeeepie. I was up after 2:00ish Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Woke up at 5:30am this morning (Thursday) for busy day. Have a big long busy/stressful day Saturday. Possible visit from Brian's friend on Sunday. High ( Read more... )

 I figured I might as well try to go less than a month between entries this time. Of course though, there's once again not much to say, especially without a survey to distract me. This weekend was another rough one for my family, and I've been constantly stressed out about that, which is not good considering that I've already been running on ( Read more... )

 I am bad. I haven't updated in forever. And now that I am, it's a survey. But it's a cool concert-themed survey, so it's not the usual "have u ever ben skinnydipping" crap. This is taken from Michelle Pietrantonio via a myspace bulletin:

Stage One: The Ticket

1. What's the most expensive ticket you’ve ever bought, and how much?
hmm, probably for a ( Read more... )

Yes, it's come to that point. I had my first dream rejection last night. No, not as in I was rejected from a "dream" top-school program just yet. That fun is still a good month+ away. "Dream rejection" as in I had a dream that I got rejected from somewhere. UCLA to be specific. It was weird. In my dream, I was sitting in my family's dining room ( Read more... )

So I believe I last left off at sending in my first two applications, to UCLA and Brown. I have since updated that list to include Carnegie Mellon and, just this week, Yale. All that's left is BU, for which I am currently studying for the god-awful horror commonly known as the GRE. I really cannot begin to fathom why the faculty at BU thinks that ( Read more... )