me, and them:

[fox]

them: because i know it matters a great deal to all of you, i now report that my friend's mother informs us they were mistaken about the ages of the children in yesterday's messages. anastasia was born 1996; valentina, 1997; katerina, 1998; and sergei, 1999. (they've been at the orphanage apparently since 2001, poor lambs.) it's a good thing we got that all straightened out. :-)

me: thank you all for your sympathy in the wake of georgetown's decision. i'm actually far less upset about it than i would have predicted, which means one of two things: that i'm utterly exhausted, or that it was the right choice for them to make. i want the phd, but i don't feel like oh my god what will i do now if i don't get it, which is a decent place to be. so, it's a disappointment -- i'd have liked them to say we love you, baby. come home -- but not a disaster. plus, my three applications to the british universities are still out there. cambridge and edinburgh both required me to submit passport photos with the applications, so i suppose i should pin all my hopes on oxford, where they aren't equipped to reject me for being funny-looking.

leaving work in one hour to go curling! curling yay!

Comments

[wholenother.livejournal.com]

I'm quite confident that you'll get in somewhere, but I've also heard many stories from people who were glad they waited a few years . . . and what I wouldn't have done to have had the chance to take time between the MAs and the PhD (would have lost the job if I had chosen to do so, and the job is much better than most other campus jobs)! At the time, I thought it would have been a good idea, now I think it would have been a great idea -- almost good enough to wish I'd given up this fantastic job. Burning out before you finish coursework is not a good idea. . . .

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Burning out before you finish coursework is not a good idea. . . .

Word to that...

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Dude, nobody is going to reject you for being funny-looking... Accept you for being a bitchin' babe is more like it. :-) I know you'll get in someplace cool where we will all envy you (& conspire to visit you).

I dreamed last night that since my job search was such a bust, I was going to get my MA. My local fannish friend Cinel decided to come along with me to keep me company (she has degrees galore, so what's one more?). We had these bizarre art and history classes in Egyptian-style bulidings, complete with murals. An MA only took 3 classes.

Enjoy the curling!!! Curl curl curl!!!