Wow hello?

Golly you guys! I had nearly 40 people view my last post. I feel super popular considering that it wasn't about anything more interesting than how I had rented an apartment and work a lot... so that is both awesome and motivating.

I do forget sometimes that I really love to write. It is calming (or energizing depending on the topic), and a really good way to get myself out of the daily grind of life. So I suppose that I'll use this new found motivation to start writing more often.

At the moment my biggest project is trying to suss out grad school. Which means applications, working out funding, working out who I need to beg for letters of rec (beginning the begging), and generally non-fun things. On the bright side I believe that I will not have to re-take the cursed GRE. So yay there!

I'm only just beginning the process really. I'm still narrowing down schools, trying to be reasonable about it, not apply to too many... you know. But I think really the biggest battle I'm fighting in all this is staving off waves of retrospective panic.

Some of you may remember, some of you may not know, but I loathed applying to colleges. I mean, really, truly hated the whole process. And now I am voluntarily putting myself through all this again? Really, I think, honestly it won't be so bad this time through. But I viscerally remember all the stress and worry associated with doing it the first time around, and I'm having to work really hard to not let myself slip back in time 6 years. Fighting those demons, oh yeah.

Also: why is applying so FREAKING EXPENSIVE? It's already expensive enough just going to grad school, why do we need to cough up an additional $90 + dollars ($150 for UBC guh) just to apply? It doesn't seem fair. I mean, I know universities have to go through a lot of work processing applications... but isn't that just part of their job? Or maybe I'm just cranky.

Anyway. Narrowing down schools and starting to look at funding. Won't this be fun?

Answer... not really.

At all.

But the end result (providing I get in somewhere) sure should be!

So, lucky you all just got a couple hundred words on my anxiety about graduate schools. Would you be interested in reading other things? I can back-track through past travels I never rambled about? (Istanbul, London, more being a teacher-ness) I could give you tales of "city living" (buses. I have words.) What do you want to read people? I love it when you read, so I want you to read things you would actually be interested in! That way you will keep coming back... muahaha!

Seriously. What?