new year’s eve plans…?

December 31st, 2006 by Christine

Two torturous days of revising my personal statement, and I’m finally finished (I think).  My reward is that I’m throwing a New Year’s Eve shindig at my place with a few friends.  The theme is “low-key.”  Nothing crazy.  My only requests are: 1) urine must go in the toilet, and 2) no swinging from the [...]


yee-haw!

December 29th, 2006 by Christine

Whew!  (*huge sigh of relief*)  3:33 AM.  (I just made a wish—can you guess what it is?)
Anyway, my printer is spewing off copies of my FINAL CREATIVE MANUSCRIPT as I type this entry.  A huge chunk is done!  (*pat on back*)
Tomorrow will be spent poring over the personal statement.  Incredibly NOT looking forward to that.


official gre score report

December 28th, 2006 by Christine

I got the ETS envelope in the mail yesterday.  I was nervous opening it, but KL was on the phone with me and gave me a pep talk beforehand.
Verbal: 600 (85%)
Quantitative: 710 (73%)
Analytical Writing: 5.5 (87%)
WAHOO and ALLELUIA!!!  I “passed” the schools’ minimum requirements!


merry xmas to myself

December 28th, 2006 by Christine

I haven’t worked on apps since December 23rd, and I sit down today with Bono (my laptop) to force myself to start.  Starting is always the hardest part; I find that once I get going, it flows.  What’s happened to me?  I used to never procrastinate until late college.  But I only have a few [...]


superman returns

December 27th, 2006 by Christine

I was sort of looking forward to this movie because I grew up with and loved the original Superman movies (especially Superman 2).  But again with expectations, I was highly disappointed.
First of all, the movie had trouble keeping my attention.  I can’t really pinpoint why, but I just felt there was no chemistry among the [...]


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