Patience is a virtue

I've decided in the last three weeks that the process of filling out applications for graduate school is nothing compared to the process of waiting to get an answer from those graduate schools. I reached a point yesterday where I decided that I'm fine with whatever answer I get, I just want to know so that if I need to make alternate plans I can do that. So, if I haven't heard something by the first of April I'm just going to start looking for a job and a place to live - then I'm going to hope that I don't get accepted somewhere after I sign a lease.

BLEH, PLEH . . .

Huh, that's help spelled backwards, how appropriate. I have to write a paper for one of my classes, it's okay because I actually want to write on this topic. Part of this paper assignment is presenting it in front of the class . . . that sucks. I hate talking in front of people, I've made it through several classes with an A without saying a word in class let alone giving a presentation. Yeah, my life sucks at the moment!

France or Bust . . .

I have decided this semester that I really want to go to France. I'm in French 1 at the moment and I have to take French 2 this summer in order to graduate. My professor is from France and she is awesome - I love the class, though I thought I would hate it, and I'm actually learning alot. So now I have this thought running in my head that it would be a waste to not go there and actually use what I've learned and expand on it. I've heard that language immersion is the best way to go and I would love to live overseas, at least for awhile - who knows, I may end up staying if I found an amazing career there. I figure now is the best time since I don't have anyone or anything keeping me tied down to any one location.

Really?

Why do perfectly capable people use the handicapped button on doors? You have both arms, your legs, you can see - why do you need to use the button? I see people all the time who walk up to the door and push the button then get mad when it doesn't work, then they'll go push the other button and when it still doesn't work they mumble under their breath and open the door with one of their perfectly good hands. I would think it would be easier to just open the damn door and walk in or out of the building. It's even better when I'm walking behind someone and they will stop dead in their tracks to wait for the door to slowly open and they get annoyed that it's slow - uh, hello, if it swung open it would slam into the handicap person who actually needs to use that function on the door. So, really, the door is made to assist the handicapped, not to assist in perfectly capable people's perpetual laziness.

I can't feel my fingers . . .

I'm going to keep this short and sweet. This is my fourth semester, not including summer, here at UCO and my first semester taking a class with Dr. Rice. I'm taking "Uncle Milty" as we call him and it's HARD! Dr. Rice is hilarious and class flies by, Milton was some kind of unbelievable genius who is not funny at all! I took my first test yesterday, the numbness is fading and my vision is clearing but I think I will be forever changed.

So over it!

I hate Valentine's Day. It's over rated and used as yet another marketing tool to get people to spend, spend, spend! Valentine's Day has been commercialized to the extreme - Wal-mart has had the visually assaulting "red" aisle packed with stuffed animals, candies, and packs of children's valentine's for over a month. I can't wait until the day is over. What aisle is next? I think Easter but honestly can't remember at the moment if it's that or St. Patrick's Day - ahhhh, now that's a holiday, who doesn't like green beer? Interesting fact I didn't know until last night when I was in my French class is that children don't celebrate Valentine's Day in France. Professor Huzieff talked about how children there do not pass out little cards to each other, the holiday is meant for lovers not children. Makes sense.

Anyway, found this pic and thought it was funny. I had another one but I wasn't sure that it would be appropriate.

Almost there

I'm almost done with the application packet for Tulane University! It's been a long, sometimes frustrating process, but I know it will pay off in the end - if I get accepted! I'm a little concerned, Tulane's definately a competitive school. I think I'm more scared of getting in than anything else. If I get in then I actually have to prove myself worthy of being accepted and show that I can do the work and make the changes I want to accomplish. Everyone around me has all this confidence in my abilities and maybe I'm just nervous about the change but I don't always see what they see. So, the anxiety over filling everything out is almost over and now comes the anxiety of waiting to get the final decision. This could make for a stressful semester!