The Topic of the Day is: Sunday, December 07, 2008
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seriously sucky migraine on Friday put a cramp in all my "catching up" plans.

I WOKE with the headache. So not fair. Did nothing to earn it (and Sashafeather, if you put up with that kind of shit every day I am seriously sorry and I don't know how you do it).

pain meds held the beast back until 1pm, at which time I realized I hadn't eaten all day. But I had meetings. So I had to wait until 2, ate, had raging, blinding headache that made my eyes throb with every instance of noise and light, tried to sleep it off in the physics club room until 5, and then staggered home.

This headache lasted until 10:30pm, whereupon the tasty sinus meds my roommates bought me, combined with application of ice cubes, dark living room, a bunch of alone time, and some kittens, kicked in and produced a tenuous state of not-totally-in-agony.

Then I went to bed.

Least. Productive. Day. Ever.



I am pretty sure my boss is kinda pissed at me because I haven't gotten any real work done and the semester is over. And I've spent 4.5 years working for him, yet pretty much never put the lab as my priority. So! in order to appease the mighty boss, tonight I shall construct an introduction and lit review, as well as methods section, of my senior honors thesis. And arrange the proper forms for ordering those parts he wanted me to get.


Grad school stuff:

I finished Virginia, barely; had to have an emergency letter sent.
One of my letter writers didn't turn in some of his letters. He submitted the Virginia one late... growl.. .turns out he forgot to do the one for my big NSF grant as well, gosh darn it; I called them, and asked them if he could submit it late or if they might still consider my application. We'll see, maybe something will work out.
Maryland is essentially done, sans transcripts and letters.
UPenn is pending on one letter of rec (which I will submit tomorrow morning, at, say, 10am)
MIT is done as far as I can recall. They refused to waive my fee so I am kind of mad at them.
UCSD I am waiting to hear from them precisely what they mean about "statement of purpose, limited to 1 page"... cause mine is currently 3... so if it's 1 page doublespaced, I may be screwed.

That's it for this round. Next round is Berkeley if I can convince Peter to write a letter for me (he says there is no way I will get in, but I already sent them my transcripts and GRE scores, so I figure I could try), U of New Mexico, U of Mass Amherst, Colorado, U of Minnesota, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Case Western.

and I need to figure out if I should call back the Delaware people who actually *called* me and wanted me to apply at their school. eep!

So, in other words, ridiculously busy. But floating, gently, on top of things. And who knows, maybe I will do all right in all these other things.

to do:
last week's lab
this week's lab
thesis
poster
WSGC paper
WS paper
WS notes for Tuesday and Thursday
Poetry write ups on two books of poetry, 1 poetry reading
poetry editing
Grad schools until death
help stefi xmas shop (casey, jessi, dad)
623 final.

I am soooo doomed

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