Straight Bs, but I somehow made it! I have 70% of my requirements complete. Life is ridiculous.

-Sooo much reading. I have no idea how I'm doing in my classes, though every written assignment I've gotten back has been B- or above. (usually above, for the record ( Read more... )

Every country has its own special brand of lonely. America's is by far the most pleasant.

...taught class today... 15 out of 25 students appeared to be in the wrong place. Tomorrow's landscape will undoubtedly be very different ( Read more... )

I was watching a black American man describe his first ever trip to Africa as a journey home, and how this trip cultivated the connection between himself and his inner African-ness. What crap. Arbitrary cultural distinctions that hinder outside good will. If he is more African than me, than we are dissimilar and possibly contrary; I will ( Read more... )

I got my official acceptance in the mail. I start TAing in the Fall, complete with stipend and waived tuition. I also have the optionof switching to the PhD program up until the 3rd semester (pending approval). Woot.

and they will let me TA (at some point).

I'm off to Gville in the Fall.

I got accepted into the University of Connecticut MA Program. Alas, no funding. I miss the days when schools just gave things to me. Those were good days.

What if I don't get in? What if I don't get in? What if I don't get in?

I made it back to South FL. The guards at the Singapore airport thought I resembled Adam Sandler so strongly that they ran and found their friends to come and see. The Tokyo airport had many many black people. The Houston airport had Wendy's. :) Now I get all shiny and fixed. Anyone free for lunch?