I'm alive

I haven't posted in like a month, but life has been pretty crazy, and I'm alive. Classes are going okay, only three of them are actually A-F grade scale. In my argumentation and debate class, I think that I am maintaining an A, and in my religion class, I had an A, but I didn't do so hot on the last exam, so we'll see how that goes. And in my British Literary History class, I can't seem to get above a B on one of his papers. THere are only three grades in the class--three papers and I've gotten Bs on both of them. I know that Dr Wiley is supposed to be a genius, but I never have to struggle on papers, so I'm going to go talk to him to see what it takes for me to get a better grade on a paper. Ugh, and I took the GRE last Tuesday--yeah, well. I did average on the verbal part and slightly below average on the quantitative part, stupid math. I think that I did really well on the writing sample, but I won't know how well I actually did for another two weeks. I know that the places that I have scoped out for grad school don't put too much emphasis onthe GRE, but it just frustrates me that I am such and good student and consider myself to be fairly intelligent, but I can't whoop standardized tests' asses.
Mlargh. HOWEVER, we went to the Doane Nut a couple of weeks ago, and even though Day 1 didn't go so well, I totally whooped Day 2's ass. I got 2 firsts and a second, and I qualled my CA! I am still kinda in shock. I never qual this early. For three years, I didn't qual anything until the last half of second semester. So, now that I am qualled I get to go to HFO in January in Austin. Oh, and we are flying this year, so having one qual is a prerequisite. I am so glad that we don't have to drive, the last time we drove to Austin, I thought that the van was going to explode with passive aggressive anger. It was horrible.
I am also still kinda on the rocks as far as where I am at in the whole applying to and getting into Grad School and getting an assistantship thing. I have applications, but have not filled any out, and I have not even looked up the deadlines, I really need to do that crap, but just haven't been focusing on it.

Anyways, smoke time.

Contemplate this: Can I hire someone to just do all of this grad school crap for me?

Birthday Bash!!!

So, I pretty much had the best birthday ever this weekend! The big 2-2. Thanks to all who made an appearance. We partied like rockstars until 4am on Friday and Saturday night. Saturday was the big hurrah, though. We went to three different bars, two different house parties, and I only paid for like 3 drinks. For future reference, when going out as a female, dress up, announce it's your birthday, and the drinks come a-rollin' in. I had a blast. The only kinda not cool thing, but maybe kinda cool thing: my friend's new beau brought his roommate with him on Saturday night, and I didn't really talk to this kid all night. THEN at the end of the night on the way from Grandma Max's to my apartment, this guy was all over me. Don't get me wrong, it was nice to know that this guy was at least moderately attracted to me, but we were both drunk, and I hadn't even had one real conversation with him. It was kinda weird. I don't know how I feel about it. Other than that (ahem, 40 mins of) awkwardness, coolness, I dunno what to call it--the night totally rocked.

Not much else has happened recently. I am taking the GRE on Nov 21, and still need to decide on where I am going to apply. I do have a revised list now, though:

K-State
Ball State
Bama
Mankato

I can't even imagine myself going to any other grad schools. I'm trying not to freak out about it, but I need to boost my GPA a bit more, do well on the GRE, and get an assistantship. It kinda makes want to runaway from everything.

Contemplate this: mmmm. . .wish I had a question.