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| Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | | 2:45 pm |
so it goes
I move to New York City tomorrow. Surprised? You're not the only one. I've been preparing for this for six months, and I still can't fucking believe it's happening. | | Saturday, July 7th, 2007 | | 3:44 pm |
The new Against Me! album has exactly ONE good song on it. Live Free or Die Hard is the feel good family film of the year. I'm in Newport right now, updating this thing for the first time in three months because I'm suffering under a grip of Spanish homework. If I finish this in time, I may go see Stza Crack play an acoustic set in Costa Mesa, but my motivation is waning. My summer school class (needed for my language requirement at NYU) ends on Thursday, and I quit my job at Upper Crust tomorrow night (thank fucking christ). I'm going to Portland for a week on the 16th, and I'll be around in Santa Cruz from the 22nd to the 1st. Then, it's back to Newport, then Vegas with my dad for a few days, then Newport until August 24th, whereupon I move to New York City and start classes on the 4th. I miss Moury. This is pretty much the extent of my life right now. | | Saturday, March 10th, 2007 | | 10:28 am |
The past month or so of checking the mail has been a slow stabbing with a knife kind of torture- every day, I run out to the mailbox and anxiously flip through the envelopes to see whether or not I had one of the coveted big envelopes (acceptance) or the dreaded small envelopes (rejection) with my name on it. After getting a small envelope back from Boston College, I had figured, "Well, NYU and the New School have got to be more selective than BC, so screw it." I originally applied to BC, BU, Northeastern, the University of Oregon, Humboldt State, San Francisco State, New School University and NYU, and with that in mind, I came to the conclusion that I'd get rejections from everywhere but U of O and SFSU. The rules of the game changed a bit when I got a package from SFSU telling me that I'd qualified for financial aid with them. "Cool," I thought. "At least it looks like I got in somewhere." I checked U of O's application database, and found out that their poli sci department had recommended that I be admitted, and that my application was pending approval by the main graduate school. I was really stoked on that, so I gave my family a ring to let them know. Later that day, I went and got the mail. I flipped through the various pieces of junk mail and such and found a big envelope from NYU's graduate admissions department. "No bigs," I think. "Probably another 'Come to an open house!' cold mailing." I tear it open, and my heart fucking stopped. NYU's offering me admission to their Political Science Master's program, with emphasis in Comparative Politics. This pretty much changes fucking everything. Prior to Thursday, my top choices were the New School, U of O, and SFSU. I figured I'd be at least competitive for U of O and New School, and my "reach" schools were NYU, BC and BU. NYU was pretty much a gigantic reach- I have to admit that I wasn't even prepared to get admitted to their program. Especially since my application was nearly two weeks late because of a snafu with my letters of recommendation. I've only heard back from two schools officially: BC and NYU. However, given that I just got accepted into one of the top programs in the country, I'd say it bodes pretty well for my other applications. I don't know if I'm going to accept the admission into NYU immediately- only because I'm waiting to see if the other universities will offer me funding or a TA position. To think that I was preparing for rejections from everyone- I was starting to look at paramedic/ff and teaching credential programs in preparation for that. Now, instead of being faced with too few options, I'm going to be looking at too many. It's a nice place to be in. Moury's already made the decision for me that I have to go. | | Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 | | 8:55 pm |
This post is my "favorite pictures ever taken" post. Warning, image heavy. ( Read more... ) | | Friday, September 2nd, 2005 | | 2:47 pm |
It's not every day that you come back from vacation and find a major US city in ruins. I started watching CNN last night in a bar on a cruise ship, and I've spent all day reading up on the reports coming out of New Orleans, and I have to say, I'm utterly fucking horrified and pissed off about both the governmental response and what the media's been reporting. So far, the most apt description of how I feel has come from, ironically enough, Something Awful. Who would have thought that the most cogent and articulate response came from a website that is famous for bringing Goatse and FiestaCat to the eyes of the internet. The guy running the show in New Orleans, the director of FEMA, got shit-canned from his last job running a goddamned HORSE BREEDING organization because of his ineptitude. And he's been entrusted with saving New Orleans. The federal government is more concerned with the sanctity of private and corporate property than with the lives of the citzenry, ordering the National Guard in to get looters off the streets by whatever means neccesary, yet not allowing any volunteer rescue workers in. The media is just absolutely fucking abombinable in their coverage. Paula Zahn's making bullshit remarks about "doing the Lord's work" and CNN had an exclusive on what Katrina would do to gas prices. What the fuck? Thousands of people are dead or dying, and Joe Six-Pack's worried about his SUV. These were taken from Free Republic, the conservative's home on the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1475783/postshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475861/postshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475829/posts And people wonder why this country is hated so fucking much. I leave you with a quote from our fearless leader, President George W. Bush. This came from his press conference earlier in the day: ""We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." | | Monday, August 8th, 2005 | | 5:42 pm |
Well, Bacchus probably has cancer. He has a growth on his lip that has been bleeding at night, so I took him into the vet today. The super nice doctor was concerned, so she's doing a preliminary biopsy and bloodwork on him that should be done by the end of the week, but she said such dark colored growths are usually indicative of melanoma. I'm waiting on a few things: to see what the pathology says, and to find out if it's spread to any bones or organs. If it hasn't, then it should be okay, because this kind of cancer apparently responds well to radiation therapy. If it has, then it'll take some real soul searching to figure out what comes next. I really, really don't need this shit right now, even if it ends up being perfectly fine. If you've ever met my dog, please keep him in your thoughts and give another dog some love in solidarity. | | Sunday, June 12th, 2005 | | 12:52 pm |
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