Students as Consumers

Suck on this Gonzo:
RYS

Preparing for the Semester

To Do BEFORE the semester starts:

1. Visit with potential future advisors?

2. Raise GRE score by at least 100 points.

3. Finish the readings for class.

4. Figure out if we're moving.

5. Figure out where I can GET IN!

6. Publish something, or at least submit it.

7. Cry a little.

8. Clean the house; purge it of unnecessary items (may include books, cat, and/or husband).

9. Lose weight.

10. Buy an iphone! (I bet this gets done first)

** Update:**

Did not complete anything on list, but did come up with a plan for Fall 2009:

Summer T-Storms

This posting from the daily picture of NOLA made me think about how much I miss sitting in the front porch swing of my grandparents house and listening to the rain on the tin roof. I also miss how fresh everything smells after it rains in the summer. It's one of the great smells of the South, along with fried okra!

Tick, Tick, Tick

book order to campus bookstore-Check!
letter of interest to chair- Check!

the sound of the HR job clock counting down!

Blew My Mind

Padma is married to Salman Rushdie?!*


Thank God, I watch VH1, otherwise I'd never had learned this tidbit.

Back to catching up on my history of Mexico!

* Oh, they divorced in 2007, but still...

Intersections

The intersection of my day job (wine) and my career (academia/drunkenness)!

Approved

The thesis is in and approved by graduate studies... I am officially out of Dodge!
YAHOO!!!!!