Yesterday I finally heard from Columbia, formerly the holdout among my schools. I got a no, which I wasn't surprised about--I was only surprised that it took them so long. But considering I applied back in October, I guess it's something that they took this long to tell me no ( Read more... )

( In which I totally geek out about grammar )

I hate how I can go to bed a full nine hours before I have to get up and still not get enough sleep. THANK GOD it's the weekend and I can sleep in.

Then tonight heart_of_man came over and we watched Silence in the Library through Journey's End. What are probably the three most difficult episodes for me to watch in the entire show, and I watched them all ( Read more... )

So over the past six months or so, I've betad shinyopals's DW fic and blithely pointed out every time she had the Doctor say "There's [something plural]", on the theory that the Doctor would be correct, dammit! He's even canonically corrected someone else's spoken grammar ( Read more... )

I see this all the time and it's getting really annoying ( Read more... )

Note to self: if you're going to take a nap, you should probably do it in the afternoon, not seven/eight pm. And you should get up earlier than midnight. Just, you know, a tip if you want to eventually get to sleep again before the sun comes up ( Read more... )

I should either be in bed or finishing my essay, but instead I'm reading fanfic, and I keep coming across something that's getting really damn annoyingIn two days time ( Read more... )

Going home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, but wanted to post this before I left. Thanks to tinitinytina for looking at it and making sure it makes sense and all.

Ah, the dreaded dialogue formatting-something that many people get right, but many more get wrong. Where do you use a comma and where a period? What should be capitalized and what shouldn’t? And why? ( Read more... )