i really want to go to grad school. i am researching historical archaeology programs. so far i've found a couple that look really good (one in boston, one in illinois, and, of course, william and mary) but i am very concerned that no school will want to accept me. honestly, who would? i'm not that smart, i'm not that hard-working, and i'm not that ( Read more... )

argh. i can't believe that it's only a few days until i go back to china. and i also can't believe that i still don't have a visa. i don't have a letter of invitation from the school, so i can't get a work visa. i'll have to get a tourist visa and get it changed when i'm over there. if they had gotten their act together sooner i would have been ( Read more... )

ARGH ( Read more... )

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.
I AM GOING HOME ON THURSDAY.
SOOOOOO EXCITED.
i can't wait to leave this program. i don't particularly want to leave china, but if it means finishing the hell that was TEFL international's beijing special summer, i'm willing to accept that. and be SUPER EXCITED about it.
that is all.

so i've figured out that lj only works between the hours of after work and before bedtime. very odd. and very specific, no ( Read more... )

china is so strange. lj works for a few days, quits, and then comes back again a couple weeks later. i work about 5 hours a week for like five weeks, work 25 hours a week for two weeks, and then back down to 10 or 12 next week (unless henry can get his act together and find me one more student). cleaning ladies clean up the boys' garbage and ( Read more... )

holy crap yo. so i just went to meet a new student and holy crap yo. they are SO RICH. their apartment is three floors, the kid has two bedrooms, there are two studies, a tea room, a rooftop garden, and a ping pong room, they have a cook, the front door of the apartment is the elevator (not a hallway like most apartments), they invited me to their ( Read more... )

OMGz. (pronounced "oh-em-geez")
lj works in china all of a sudden. how... um... sudden.
how long until i go home? not soon enough, i think.

so my chinese paper sucks because i was too sick to finish it properly. i'm still sick. yesterday i was throwing up all over the place, along with other unpleasant symptoms. i lost 4 hours of studying for geology because my stupid body didn't know what it was doing. at least it was easy enough. i think i can get an A in the class. or at least an A ( Read more... )

OMG. i am DONE with my SMP. forever. and ever and ever and ever! YAY. now all i have to do is do my chinese presentation today, finish my paper by friday, take my stats final tomorrow morning, and take my geology final tomorrow night. and then i'm done with college. forever. that does not make me happy. but on the plus side, it does mean that i'm ( Read more... )