Hello everyone, long time no chat! Grad school has literally been consuming my life. But that's okay. I'm learning to live with low-level stress and manage it. I've done a lot of knitting, particularly socks. It's a small, manageable thing to do that makes me feel accomplished. For many of the patterns I can also knit as I read really dense ( Read more... )

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Okay, now I've done it: I've sent in my indication of acceptance into Carleton's Public History program. \o/


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Remember, a while back, I did nothing but worry and complain about the application process for university? Well, it did end up paying off!

I have received three offers. It has been a really tough decision, but I think that I've slowly come to lean towards going to Carleton University. I'm going to be sending them my acceptance this week. Here is my ( Read more... )

I was stressing out earlier because I got an e-mail this morning about a few documents I had forgotten to send in for my application for the Master's program at the University of Alberta, and now I have to go and print one off, sign it, run to a friend's house up a giant hill on the opposite side of town to scan it, then send it off...

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Busy busy busy... No word back yet from any of the universities I've applied to, but seeing as I sent in my applications a month or so early and the real deadlines were, like, last week, I'm not concerned. Yet. I've also learned that two of my friends have also applied for programs at Western, which is on the top of my list, and wouldn't that be ( Read more... )

All online information for my grad school applications has been submitted! \o/

(And, begrudgingly, the application fees for each school.)

Now I just have to mail the hard copies of certain forms to them tomorrow... and then I can relax and enjoy the Christmas break! (And I'll stop replying to a simple "Hi, how are you today?" with long updates about ( Read more... )

This is my determined face.

So even twenty four hours ago I was puttering along quite happily in my safe assumption that I'll just apply for a master's in history at the University of Alberta (where I completed my undergrad last spring), fairly certain to get in, very little stress. Then I had this status update on facebook: "Also: now applying for ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! It's such a cliché to say it, but time really does fly! I've been hard at work preparing for and teaching English classes, but this week I had several other things on my mind.

First, on a sad note, I think that for the first November since I started NaNoWriMo, I am not going to make it to 50k. :( I have fallen several days behind, ( Read more... )

I had a really good time today giving a guest lecture/leading a discussion on aboriginal women's history in Canada, in an American women's history class, of all things ( Read more... )