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8-31-11

Stupid (entertaining) cats.

I'm Gonna Sing the Doom Song Now!

8-30-22

Spotted this somewhat faded, but awesome, siedwalk art in Berkeley today as I headed down to Philz to do some after-work decompressing. I haven't watched Invader Zim in quite some time, but was talking about it just the other day with some friends (spawned from a conversation about JTHM), and it was certainly a fundamental aspect of my college self, so it was fun to see this drawing of Gir. I might have to have a Zim watching party with myself...that's not as creepy as it sounds...I swear. I'll have to wait until I finish Blood +. though. I'm almost done - don't judge! Anime is totally cool! haha. 

I really like sidewalk art. I don't know why, maybe it's because I don't ever expect it/am never looking for it and it's fun and exciting to find something unexpected and colorful on the sidewalk. 

In other news, I ordered all my transcripts today! This has made me giddy beyond all reason. Probably because I've been thinking about whether or not to apply to PhD programs for the last two and a half years now, and this is the first time it feels like it's real - like I'm really going to do it, apply, and hopefully go. :-D Next week, after getting my paycheck, I'll order my GRE scores (and cry a little at the $160.00 it's going to cost). Inch by inch getting closer. And more and more nervous I won't get in anywhere, but I'm trying to ignore the feelings of inadequacy and just do what I know I need to do and prepare myself to accept whatever outcome because whatever the outcome, I'm moving forward and figuring out what to do next/with my life! It's a good feeling! 

Narrowed Down!

8-28-11

Finally got my list of grad schools to apply to narrowed down! Here's what I've been staring out for daaaaaaaaaaaaaays. A To-Do List on google docs, and my trusty notebook full of lists, cartoons, thoughts, and goals. It felt like this took forever, and was sort of exhausting but once I got over the panicky feeling that if I chose the "wrong" schools my life would be over, I felt pretty good about my list:

• University of Texas at Austin
• UC Berkeley
• UC San Diego
• University of Chicago
• UC Davis
• MAYBE University of Michigan and Gallaudet University

The final list surprised me, actually. Some of the schools I thought were my first picks (Boston, Stanford) didn't even make it to my final list and some that I never dreamed I'd consider (Texas, Davis) ended up being in the final cut. All of these schools have at least one person who is doing SOMETHING with sign language linguistics, and most of them have strong neurolinguistic programs/professors. 

Now, on to ordering transcripts, asking people to write me letters of rec. and getting my statement of purpose together!

Saturday Booty

8-27-11

Played games and had dinner after an awesome mountain bike ride (my 2nd one!). Jeff very kindly brought me these awesome gluten-free cookies! Aren't they awesome! They were all pirate themed and the treasure chest was at the very bottom, so you had to eat through the pirates first. lol. I love it!

I Dig Friday Nights at Home. Alone.

8-26-11

I've been feeling under the weather all week so I took another night off from boxing and went home (after getting my bike fixed, again, at Mike's Bikes). I had a lot of summer squash and zucchini that was going to go bad soon, so I took the opportunity to do some cooking. A night at home, alone, feeling productive and not wasteful - and watching Blood + (almost done with the show. It's awesome, don't judge) - was just what the doctor ordered.

So here is what I made - an awesome sauce of squash, zucchini, tomatoes, black olives, and spices sauteed in olive oil and...some sort of vinegar, I forget which kind now (we have SO many), and some gluten free pasta. I just added some red sauce to it and voila! Delicious, and all the veggies were from either our garden or our local farm veggie box. Yay!

I always feel so good when I use all the veggies we have in the fridge before they go bad. :)

Let's Go Giants, Let's GO!

8-25-11

I went to a Giant's game last night, so technically this isn't a photo from today, but that's ok because I wanted to show you the fog! Look at the lights and you can see the beginnings of it rolling in. It was actually really cool.

And just in case you were wondering, yeah they won. And I saw Brian Wilson drive away in his sweet car after the game. I'm so cool and unique. No one else saw him. Except for like, you know, the dozens of other people standing around, but whatever.

Back to it

8-24-11

Missed a couple of days, but oh well.

Back home after house sitting for a week, and thus back to my regularly scheduled BART/bike commute. Hopefully no protests will get in the way of my travels.