Author Topic: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition (Read 116634 times)

Idun · « **Reply #1175 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:00:46 PM »

Pitt is the only Ph.D program I'm applying to. I don't believe I'll get in since they admit 6 to their program each year. You're fully covered if you're accepted pretty much. I think I'm going to try to stick on my art librarian track, but focus heavily on the schools that offer dual degrees. But, I'm still going to apply.

*edit*
The fact that almost half of their staff is from Harvard unsettles me.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1176 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:12:05 PM »

I'm doing similarly, seeking English degrees which offer specialization in Anglo-Saxon and British Medieval literature, rather than going for a Medieval Studies degree. English professors are always in demand somewhere (even if the job market sucks and the places demanding them aren't so great unless you're lucky), but there aren't even enough schools that offer Medieval Studies as a program to warrant getting a degree in it.

Not that it matters, since the whole mess has an acceptance rate of about 5%. Not an exaggeration.

Hahahah, oh academics.

Tide · « **Reply #1177 on:** July 22, 2010, 04:47:20 AM »

Will likely be gone or at least not appearing as often for a while. Study season has kicked in. Time to work my ass off. Or at least attempt to. Hurray :/

*sets fire to accounting stuff*

Idun · « **Reply #1178 on:** July 22, 2010, 05:09:22 AM »

Yeah, so the acceptance rate coincides with the small availability of active researcher faculty. It'd definitely be harder under the philosophical approach for teaching to have too many grad students per professor for supervision. I know of one person doing Medieval Studies at Cornell, but that's all I've heard for success stories.

Edit* And GOOD LUCK (:

Idun · « **Reply #1179 on:** July 22, 2010, 05:35:27 PM »

3/5 colleges -
All e-mails sent, check
All REQs outlined, check

2/5 colleges -
All e-mails sent, lolno
All REQs outlined, lolno

Been surfing for fellowships/grants/assistantships and those are apparently offered upon acceptance. I shall stop looking for FA now. All I know is you have to multiply 4x2, and 8 is the # of letters of rec I shall need since I'm applying to two departments, and one college is the in-case-of-emergency option. Thankfully I already have three professors set up. I'll just give them a forewarning, especially since I was already sent a list of things they need.

On another note, I have Friday off. I think I will cut the grass. Sunday, I start training for volunteering at the Fernbank Museum. The High isn't accepting any volunteers yet, but probably will during the Dali exhibit. I just want to get in a museum, but I'm avoiding the Greeter position at all costs. It works harmoniously with my job hours, as I only have to volunteer once a month. Yay.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1180 on:** July 22, 2010, 09:07:05 PM »

Got the call center job at Verizon, so long as I can pass a piss test (they outright told me that the background check was just the references I gave them, so score one on calling their bluff). I should be able to do it since I haven't smoked regularly in months but, you know, anxiety and all that.

Suffice it to say, so long as I don't have the offer rescinded the last 30 days have been the best 30 days in my life.

indeed.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1181 on:** July 22, 2010, 09:18:53 PM »

Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about! So I go back tomorrow to get two filled, and I'll be getting the rest done after DLCon to spread out the cost. There's no pain in any of them. Just sensitivity to hot and cold. So it should be fine.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1182 on:** July 22, 2010, 09:47:56 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on July 22, 2010, 09:18:53 PM

Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about!

I don't know if it's the material I've been reading or not, but this so did not make me think of "teeth." I was going to suggest you keep in touch with your doctor more regularly if you were finding new cavities!

On a serious note: that sucks. Glad they don't hurt, though, especially if you're going to wait a month to get them dealt with.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1183 on:** July 22, 2010, 09:52:13 PM »

Hahahahaha. Nice catch there. Didn't even notice that.

Thank god it was you that responded to that first. Others would have completely wasted that chance for comedic gold by being lame and crass. The straight man reaction was the only way to go to get maximum laughs out of that one<G>

metroid composite · « **Reply #1184 on:** July 22, 2010, 11:36:29 PM »

Quote from: Lady Door on July 22, 2010, 09:47:56 PM

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on July 22, 2010, 09:18:53 PM
Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about!

I don't know if it's the material I've been reading or not, but this so did not make me think of "teeth." I was going to suggest you keep in touch with your doctor more regularly if you were finding new cavities!

Honestly? I can't think of any new-cavity-acquisition-methods that are doctor-preventable. Doctor-causeable, sure, but....

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1185 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:04:07 AM »

Well... flesh-eating bacteria could certainly create a cavity of some sort, and that's somewhat preventable by medical professionals!

Idun · « **Reply #1186 on:** July 23, 2010, 05:29:23 AM »

I'm on my period for the second time this month. ;.;

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1187 on:** July 23, 2010, 05:38:56 AM »

Double Not-Pregnant!

So today I found out that the English teacher guy who has been bullying me and the rest of the younger teachers at my middle school all year had some kind of heart attack and he's now in the hospital.

I'm not really sure how to feel about that. On the one hand, I don't like anyone having health problems. On the other hand, work is so so so much less oppressive without him around. I might even go so far as to claim job satisfaction now. This probably makes me a terrible person, but I hope he takes extended leave until my contract is over and I never have to see him again.

Grefter · « **Reply #1188 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:56:11 AM »

High fives for being terrible people.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1189 on:** July 23, 2010, 11:02:29 PM »

Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on July 23, 2010, 01:04:07 AM

Well... flesh-eating bacteria could certainly create a cavity of some sort, and that's somewhat preventable by medical professionals!

You're thinking of abscesses. Which ties in to my story for the day!

Children, if you think you have an abscess, you should get it checked out rather than just ignoring it. That way, you don't end up like this guy who came in today who had an abscess under his big toenail. So the doc numbs him up and lifts up the nail, which is already loose, to look underneath. And you know what he finds? Maggots, like fifty of them, and they're crawling around underneath and falling out on to the floor.

Even if you have one that you figure is in a non-life-threatening place, it can still be extremely disgusting.

Excal · « **Reply #1190 on:** July 24, 2010, 05:46:48 PM »

Good news: Move s mostly complete. Old place is empty, and landlords were not as huge of dicks as they said they'd be.

Bad: News, way too much stuff for new place, and still no idea how I'm going to hook up my comp to the interwebs. Which is bad, as I intensely dislike this keyboard.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1191 on:** July 24, 2010, 06:22:38 PM »

Garage sale, garage sale~

Excal · « **Reply #1192 on:** July 24, 2010, 11:27:00 PM »

But my little sister who moved to Ontario years ago totally looked at that otherwise useless thing is a really funny manner when she was four and a half. How can we possibly part with it?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1193 on:** July 24, 2010, 11:28:53 PM »

Quote from: Excal on July 24, 2010, 11:27:00 PM

But my little sister who moved to Ontario years ago totally looked at that otherwise useless thing is a really funny manner when she was four and a half. How can we possibly part with it?

I will kill you in your sleep and feed your corpse to the canadian ogresses if you get nostalgic -now-. Garage sale pronto, wretch.

=*

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1194 on:** July 24, 2010, 11:39:22 PM »

Oh, it's not him. >_>

Please tell me that at least the 46 computers are being considered for recycling or something. ;_;

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1195 on:** July 24, 2010, 11:44:10 PM »

I'm not being picky, I can kill the rest of the opposition too.

superaielman · « **Reply #1196 on:** July 25, 2010, 12:44:27 AM »

Got to like 105 today. I enjoy summer, but fuck that shit.

Excal · « **Reply #1197 on:** July 25, 2010, 04:10:44 AM »

If they are here, I didn't notice them being moved.

Also, managed to find a tub of peanut butter and a butterknife, and so a pb&j sandwich was made. I have been wanting one of those for two days now, and it was good.

Also, man, I thought it was hot here. But at least the lakes and rivers are not being boiled away by the heat of the sun. I do not blame you for wanting to fuck that shit, Super.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1198 on:** July 25, 2010, 03:38:21 PM »

Excal: I'm pretty sure he means Farenheight. It got to 110 Farenheight in Georgia yesterday, which is 43 in normal-people temperatures. Still hot, but water was not boiling away.

(I spent Saturday in my apartment with the AC On, and an ice-pack on my burns).

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1199 on:** July 25, 2010, 05:37:45 PM »

... *giggle* So that's what people were on about. The antichrist cometh when lakes and rivers boil then turn to blood. If the metric system is in place, they boil EVERY SUMMER.

This may be the weirdest thing I've found funny in months.

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Author Topic: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition (Read 116634 times)

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