Nine days ago, I graduated from college. It rained during the commencement address, so poor Patrick Fitzgerald's speech was kind of overshadowed by everyone huddling into their gowns and wishing they'd brought umbrellas and watching in fascination as everyone's hats wilted as the cardboard got soaked through ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to accidentally change my settings so that I didn't receive comment notifications on my last entry, so I was slightly hurt that no one commented and congratulated me on my storySouth win. But it turns out I was just being an idiot. So thanks, guys ( Read more... )

I found out yesterday that I got into the University of Illinois, which means I'm officially in at all three places I applied. Hooray! Due to the fact that Madison's money situation is best (and a few other reasons), I'm almost certainly going to end up there. I'll be visiting Simmons in Boston in just a little bit, but I'm nearly positive it would ( Read more... )

On Friday it was announced that "Erased" actually won the Best Fantasy Story of 2008 poll. I feel like there must be some mistake, especially with such amazing runners-up, including two of my favorites, Peter M. Ball's "On the Finding of Photographs of My Former Loves" and Carole Lanham's "Keepity Keep". So I'm less proud about winning and more ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that I have a midterm tomorrow that I'm not likely to do very well on, this weekend has been my best so far this year. Friday I went to an improv show that was pretty good and then watched a movie with Kristin. Last night was my friend Sara's birthday party, which involved hair playing-with, slight tipsiness, and dancing and ( Read more... )

Today has been a remarkably good day, considering that there is nothing inherently special about it. In fact, I woke up this morning feeling very unrested and emphatically not wanting to get up. But I had work, and then class, so I struggled out of bed. And my landlord walked in the door (front door, not bedroom door, thank goodness) with donuts. ( Read more... )

I just read a PoliSci article that convincingly argues that Gore would have won the 2000 election if it had just rained a little less in certain Florida counties on election day. O_O ( Read more... )

Thus far, the school year has bored me. Despite the fact that we had three whole days before classes started, my friends didn't seem to want to do anything. Now classes have started, and I know from past experience how quickly everyone gets busy and stressed. Last night was fun though--I watched Psych and goofed off on the internet with Lauren and ( Read more... )

So, I'm back at school, except not actually at school, but rather two blocks away in a house. Our house is an awesome house of awesomeness, and eventually I will steal borrow someone's camera and take pictures of everything. I ♥ my room, and my full size bed, and my south-facing windows (though not so much my east-facing window, which shines light ( Read more... )

My last day of work was exactly one week ago. It already feels like longer. Which is good, because that job was dead boring. They asked if I'd be interested in working over breaks in the future though, which could be a pretty sweet deal. They do pay well ( Read more... )