In which Sky is all a-flutter.
Jul. 19th, 2011 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cerulean_sky• I bought my tickets for NYC. I actually paid for it all myself, but my mom reimbursed me half. Still, it was sort of exciting to buy my own tickets and all that. :) I will get to see all sorts of awesome people while I'm there! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girasola and exrpan because I miss my bffs; I timed the trip to allow me to be there for lskull86's birthday; and oduinn will have just moved. I am super excited. Plus all the other people who I'm not mentioning by name. :)
• Oh also:exrpan, we should do another photoshoot now that's it's warmer. Maybe in Bryant Park, or on the steps of the Met or somewhere a little more urban. If you have time, that is.
• Got my financial aid award letter from school. Um. They're giving me $7,000 per semester in a "Department Award Creative Writing Scholarship". Ok, a) $7k is half the full tuition, and b) I haven't submitted a writing portfolio yet; what are they basing this scholarship on, my admissions essay? I'm also getting 25% off the $13,900+ tuition, and I'm eligible for another $7,500 in a loan. Which means, all told, we might be paying a couple hundred dollars per semester for me to go to this school. Also, since I was urged to do so by my advisors, if I submit a writing portfolio now and win another award, are they going to just pay me to attend? This is all both awesome and baffling. I have to call them tomorrow and make sure I actually know what's going on and this isn't some sort of cruel joke.
• But yeah, speaking of writing portfolio, I'm working on one. I need 6-10 pieces to put in it, and I have exactly one that is finished and could go in without me having to edit it. And only two that just need basic editing. Another needs an edit and a major addition, and two more need me to actually write them. And I'm supposed to turn something in on Friday. Laugh with me. Come on. You know you want to. (/headdesk)
• Speaking of school, I registered for my classes last week:
• Had dinner with my dad tonight. When I got there, this conversation occured:
• Apparently Borders is closing all of its stores. Which means the last big bookstore here is closing. That leaves us with one mostly successful, marginally interesting local store, and a few used book stores, and a B&N an hour away. I am bummed about this. On the other hand, I am also happy for liquidating sales. That means more travel books will be added to my growing collection, and possibly some Moleskines and possibly some other things. Still, it's a bummer.
• There are some fandom things I need to be working on. But I keep getting school things put in my lap and then I don't let myself work on fandom things because I should be working on the school things, and I'm not working on the school things because I am procrastinating. Ugh. I need to work around this. I have to figure something out.
• It's stupidly hot out here. Sleeping has become difficult even with the medication I take. It's worrisome.
Speaking of sleep, I'm off to do that.
girasola and exrpan because I miss my bffs; I timed the trip to allow me to be there for lskull86's birthday; and oduinn will have just moved. I am super excited. Plus all the other people who I'm not mentioning by name. :)• Oh also:
exrpan, we should do another photoshoot now that's it's warmer. Maybe in Bryant Park, or on the steps of the Met or somewhere a little more urban. If you have time, that is.• Got my financial aid award letter from school. Um. They're giving me $7,000 per semester in a "Department Award Creative Writing Scholarship". Ok, a) $7k is half the full tuition, and b) I haven't submitted a writing portfolio yet; what are they basing this scholarship on, my admissions essay? I'm also getting 25% off the $13,900+ tuition, and I'm eligible for another $7,500 in a loan. Which means, all told, we might be paying a couple hundred dollars per semester for me to go to this school. Also, since I was urged to do so by my advisors, if I submit a writing portfolio now and win another award, are they going to just pay me to attend? This is all both awesome and baffling. I have to call them tomorrow and make sure I actually know what's going on and this isn't some sort of cruel joke.
• But yeah, speaking of writing portfolio, I'm working on one. I need 6-10 pieces to put in it, and I have exactly one that is finished and could go in without me having to edit it. And only two that just need basic editing. Another needs an edit and a major addition, and two more need me to actually write them. And I'm supposed to turn something in on Friday. Laugh with me. Come on. You know you want to. (/headdesk)
• Speaking of school, I registered for my classes last week:
♠ I am waiting for Living Writers: Foundations (the first Creative Writing core class) and Techniques of Creative Writing: Fiction (another Creative Writing core class) to open up new sections for me to enter into.There are five classes instead of four in the hopes of graduating in four semesters instead of five, and all of them are upper level courses. I'll have to take a Cultural Diversity liberal arts core requirement class next semester, but other than that, I can pretty much take all Writing and Literature classes all the time and they will all be upper level classes. It's kind of super exciting.
♠ I am already registered for Beginning Bible Studies (which fulfills my Social Science Distributive liberal arts core requirement) and Ethical Traditions (which fulfills my Ethical Responsibility liberal arts core requirement, and I still maintain that Seminar totally fulfills both of these requirements).
♠ And Literature and the Post-Human (which has Frankenstein (haven't read) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (read in high school) as required reading among other things).
• Had dinner with my dad tonight. When I got there, this conversation occured:
Dad: How are you?
Me: Good. Tired, but good. The kids were really difficult today.
[significant pause]
Dad: Payback's a bitch, isn't it.
Both of us: (/dies laughing)
• Apparently Borders is closing all of its stores. Which means the last big bookstore here is closing. That leaves us with one mostly successful, marginally interesting local store, and a few used book stores, and a B&N an hour away. I am bummed about this. On the other hand, I am also happy for liquidating sales. That means more travel books will be added to my growing collection, and possibly some Moleskines and possibly some other things. Still, it's a bummer.
• There are some fandom things I need to be working on. But I keep getting school things put in my lap and then I don't let myself work on fandom things because I should be working on the school things, and I'm not working on the school things because I am procrastinating. Ugh. I need to work around this. I have to figure something out.
• It's stupidly hot out here. Sleeping has become difficult even with the medication I take. It's worrisome.
Speaking of sleep, I'm off to do that.