i've got mail
i got fun snail mail today. four (that's FOUR) things. well... three fun things and one bill from bmg.
item one: a note from my friend heather, whose wedding i'll be in this july. it's just a note saying she's picked out the bridesmaid dresses if we want to get our measurements done and everything. if you want to see the dress i'll be spending just over $100 on and imagine in your mind the dazzling beauty that will be me, there's a picture of the dress here. it'll be black.
item two: a belated christmas present from my parents. it's a year-long subscription to writers' digest. i asked for this, and i'm excited about it. maybe it'll inspire me to get my stuff out, like i keep saying i'm going to. and maybe it'll tell me how to send things out so that i might actually get published somewhere. wouldn't that be exciting:)
item three: a letter of recommendation for this china program thing from an old professor. i know letters of recommendation are always excessively complementary and everything, but this one went to my head more than usual:)
it's from a professor who i'd heard of before i ever set foot on campus. he was notorious for being really tough, although fair, and blunt about his opinions. he'd made students cry in conferences by telling them they wrote like third graders and told his advisees he didn't think they were quite cut out to be english majors.
i wound up taking about seven classes with him and wishing i could've taken more:) he was, indeed, as tough as i had heard, but i learned a lot, and he was really funny in class. anyway, forgive me for boring you with nice things someone else said about me, but it just really made my night:)
i think my favorite thing that he says in the letter is in the first sentence, when he says i'm "one of the most outstanding students with whom [he has] worked in [his] twenty years of higher education teaching." does he really think that?
he says what he most remembers about me is my "ability to ask the most penetrating questions." and my "fearlessness. she simply would not not be intimidated--by me, by other students, or by the difficulty of the subject."
of my character, he says i am "quiet, though not shy, [with] a highly developed sense of humor, and a strong sense of her own worth."
isn't that nice?
in other news, i watched amelie again tonight, since i decided to buy it a week or two ago. her love interest in this movie is very cute:) speaking of cute non-english speaking boys in movies, the psychologist guy from the eye is also very cute. i wonder if i'll meet any cute, nice, english-speaking chinese boys when i'm in china for a year...
also, it's supposed to be twelve below tonight when i drive to work. that's very very very cold. very.
item one: a note from my friend heather, whose wedding i'll be in this july. it's just a note saying she's picked out the bridesmaid dresses if we want to get our measurements done and everything. if you want to see the dress i'll be spending just over $100 on and imagine in your mind the dazzling beauty that will be me, there's a picture of the dress here. it'll be black.
item two: a belated christmas present from my parents. it's a year-long subscription to writers' digest. i asked for this, and i'm excited about it. maybe it'll inspire me to get my stuff out, like i keep saying i'm going to. and maybe it'll tell me how to send things out so that i might actually get published somewhere. wouldn't that be exciting:)
item three: a letter of recommendation for this china program thing from an old professor. i know letters of recommendation are always excessively complementary and everything, but this one went to my head more than usual:)
it's from a professor who i'd heard of before i ever set foot on campus. he was notorious for being really tough, although fair, and blunt about his opinions. he'd made students cry in conferences by telling them they wrote like third graders and told his advisees he didn't think they were quite cut out to be english majors.
i wound up taking about seven classes with him and wishing i could've taken more:) he was, indeed, as tough as i had heard, but i learned a lot, and he was really funny in class. anyway, forgive me for boring you with nice things someone else said about me, but it just really made my night:)
i think my favorite thing that he says in the letter is in the first sentence, when he says i'm "one of the most outstanding students with whom [he has] worked in [his] twenty years of higher education teaching." does he really think that?
he says what he most remembers about me is my "ability to ask the most penetrating questions." and my "fearlessness. she simply would not not be intimidated--by me, by other students, or by the difficulty of the subject."
of my character, he says i am "quiet, though not shy, [with] a highly developed sense of humor, and a strong sense of her own worth."
isn't that nice?
in other news, i watched amelie again tonight, since i decided to buy it a week or two ago. her love interest in this movie is very cute:) speaking of cute non-english speaking boys in movies, the psychologist guy from the eye is also very cute. i wonder if i'll meet any cute, nice, english-speaking chinese boys when i'm in china for a year...
also, it's supposed to be twelve below tonight when i drive to work. that's very very very cold. very.