Matt and I finished around 3:00 a.m., at a staggering 11,000 for word count of the main paper and an additional 3,000 words in the citations ( Read more... )

897 words, three hours of painstaking research on the influence of the Libertarian Party from 1971 through 2008, with over twenty sources--and it deleted it.

There is no justice.

ETA: Ugh. Okay, rewrote all of it and I now have 885 words, with exactly twenty sources. It's not as good as the original, but it'll have to do, because I know more ( Read more... )

Let's Do the Time Warp Again from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (movie version).

Got my grade on my paper that I was rather snarky on and pointed out how wrong he was--50/50.

On the tenth day of Halloween, my lj friend gave to me, another song by Ministry!. That is, Everyday is HalloweenI ordered something from Victoria's Secret a while ago (don't get too excited; just a swimsuit top), and they said they couldn't ship it until December. I ordered it after summer anyway, so it wasn't like I really need it until next ( Read more... )

A further installation in the UT Admissions Saga, AKA The Epic Tale of the Valiant Struggle of the Poor Disillusioned Prospective Student Versus the Forces of Evil Admissions People:

UT has a status check that allows fearful students to obsessively click refresh and check it every day even though we all know that it won't actually show anything ( Read more... )

* Broke my 9 minute mile two days ago! It was 8:56, but still less than 9 minutes ( Read more... )

PALO ALTO COLLEGE

Incomplete transcript on file, official transcript needed thru Spring 2007

I DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL AFTER FALL 2006. THAT'S IT. I PROMISE.

The message keeps changing, but it's the same idiocy.

ETA: So I called this morning, and got a nice guy instead of the snippy lady I have been getting. He said that it's because they need ( Read more... )

I’ve been in a bit of a bitchy mood of late, so I’m seeking to (somewhat) remedy this by making a list of random things that annoy me so hopefully I can let it go:1. The other day Mike said that I was predictably unpredictable. When all three of my brothers went to A&M, he said, it was natural that I decided to go to UT ( Read more... )

Excerpt from the summary of Chapter 8: The Texas Legislature“Throughout the 1990’s only one year-1998-was free of either primaries or general elections being conducted under legally challenged redistricting maps. The challenges came from both parties and the same basis for the complaints. Democrats sued using the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the ( Read more... )

My very first credit card!

And a homemade graph illustrating how very, very bored I am.


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