once again i stress myself into getting sick
I'm not feeling good today. When I get really stressed out it is not uncommon for that to result in my getting sick. See, for example, the week I took my GREs. I was so stressed out between studying for that test and lots of problems going on at home that I ended up with a really bad cold during the exam that I'm pretty sure was at least part of the reason why my verbal score plummeted. This time though the cold has been really slow to progress. It hasn't gotten incredibly bad, but it's just really slow and has been sticking around for awhile. Most of last week I had a scratchy feeling in my throat. Then around Friday it developed into more of a cough, and just now I'm getting the stuffy-nose feeling. Usually it's sore throat for a day or two followed by congestion and bleh for a few days. But it's just weird that whenever I have something to stress out over, such as the GREs or this fellowship application, I often end up making myself sick in the process. I used to get sick after auditions or after the run of a play in college.
I dragged the wires out as far as they would go so that I could plug in my work computer in my bedroom and copyedit from my bed today. Our wireless connection still won't work, so I had to really stretch all of the wires to be able to get the ethernet cord to reach all the way over here. But now it's nice. My tea got cold though and I want to make another cup of it later.
My fellowship got in on time though. I got my transcript and my second recommendation on Wednesday and then the final recommendation came on Thursday. Thursday night when I was intending to pack everything into the envelope and walk to the mailbox, I noticed that they have speicific guidelines for showing "proof of mailing" in the application packet. I needed to have a clear postmark date or a mail receipt from a commercial carrier or something else to that effect. And they said that post offices don't necessarily always put a good enough postmark on things automatically, so I had to wait until Friday morning and walk half a mile down the (sidewalk-less) road on what is more or less a very small highway to the post office before work. I had them make sure the date was all nice and clear and that I'd get signature confirmation when it is received. So now that's all sent in and done, yay. But I have pretty much no chance of getting a fellowship though them since they only hand out about 50 or so nationwide. It's for PhDs or MFAs in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts for study in the US. I'm just happy it's done and I don't have to deal with it anymore until they give me the "no" letter this spring. Now I need to deal with figuring out how to pay for this semester at UMass.
I dragged the wires out as far as they would go so that I could plug in my work computer in my bedroom and copyedit from my bed today. Our wireless connection still won't work, so I had to really stretch all of the wires to be able to get the ethernet cord to reach all the way over here. But now it's nice. My tea got cold though and I want to make another cup of it later.
My fellowship got in on time though. I got my transcript and my second recommendation on Wednesday and then the final recommendation came on Thursday. Thursday night when I was intending to pack everything into the envelope and walk to the mailbox, I noticed that they have speicific guidelines for showing "proof of mailing" in the application packet. I needed to have a clear postmark date or a mail receipt from a commercial carrier or something else to that effect. And they said that post offices don't necessarily always put a good enough postmark on things automatically, so I had to wait until Friday morning and walk half a mile down the (sidewalk-less) road on what is more or less a very small highway to the post office before work. I had them make sure the date was all nice and clear and that I'd get signature confirmation when it is received. So now that's all sent in and done, yay. But I have pretty much no chance of getting a fellowship though them since they only hand out about 50 or so nationwide. It's for PhDs or MFAs in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts for study in the US. I'm just happy it's done and I don't have to deal with it anymore until they give me the "no" letter this spring. Now I need to deal with figuring out how to pay for this semester at UMass.