So I get a phone call from a 505 area code number. I just miss picking up in time. When I look up the area code and realize it's from New Mexico - as in, University of, as in, a school I applied to - I immediately tried to call them back but got a busy signal. Then I went all stalker and looked the number up online to try and figure out who it was ( Read more... )

If I don't hear from any of my schools by the end of this week , I'll be officially anxious. I haven't heard from ANYWHERE. Not a single place. NADA. I've been avoiding this on purpose, but this morning I decided to try and get a feel for who's heard back from where. After browsing the LJ grad app communities (I'm still too afraid to contact the ( Read more... )

{I starting writing this huge long post, and I decided to take the different sections and just post one a day. So that way it's not so overwhelming, and I don't have to use the promise of, say, an express-mailed batch of cookies, to get people to actually read the whole damn thing.}

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I always thinks of random things I want to post about at random times, and then I forget about them. It's too late for me to post now but this is so I don't forget ( Read more... )

1. I like reading out loud. I dunno why. I was reading my current book (Hyperion, by Dan Simmons) on the bus this morning, but I decided to stop and wait until I got home, because the chapter was shaping up to be one that would be fun to read out loud. I've tried to cajole John into letting me read the book to him, but I haven't been successful yet ( Read more... )

You can tell my little brother and I are related not only by how we look, but by the ridiculously corny sense of humor we share.

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"In an experiment done by Roland Anderson, a biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, giant Pacific octopuses would rise to the surface to greet a researcher who had fed them in the past. But when a second researcher approached - one who'd touched them with a bristly stick - they squirted water on him."

Happy Octopus Week!

"Take for example the money that Americans spend on weight loss supplements - 1.3 billion dollars per year, and yet the American Academy of Family Physicians has found no evidence to support the use of a single one. That's more money than the World Health Organization's annual budget, and more than Great Britain spends on cancer research in a year ( Read more... )

On livejournal, that is.

I deleted my LJ Paralith account because I never really used it - largely because of how irritating it is to only be logged in to one at a time. Since I now have a blogger account thanks to the Lost Year blog, and they allow one user to have multiple blogs, I might reinstate the Paralith journal there. I would kind of like ( Read more... )

... and an early Valentine's Day, too. ^_^


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