Author: cheerfulchaotic

No one judges you based on your clothes.

Math 800 (again)
Verbal 800 (woot!)

Essay I felt better about my issue essay than the argument essay. But 45 v 30 minutes will do that. And the argument essay was basically as engineered for my research interests as possible. So, of course I wanted to write for 3 times as long as they gave us.

Still, this shouldn’t hurt my application. Might even help them overlook my gpa. =)

I’ll be in Champaign for an engineers without borders meeting, so I had to reschedule my GRE. And my choice was this weekend or mid-October. I opted for this weekend. That means I’ll have to do some practice essay writing over the next few days. I also want to have a solid draft of my research objectives by the start of next week to share with the friends who’ve volunteered to help me with my essay. (So I can give it to my recommenders by the end of next week as well).

Grad school ho?

Yay, screen replacement ordered online worked like a charm. Cell phone is back in business. When my contract is up (in July), I’ll probably switch to an HTC Dream running Android or something like that.

There is nothing to fill me with greater despair than grad school applications, promotion applications, performance self-appraisals or anything else where basically, I have to attest to how awesome I am. Fun times.

two fridays ago: Vancouver, UBC, Critial mass

Sidekick broked. The screen no worky. This means no mobile browsing, no text messages, and good luck dialing people’s numbers, certainly no call screening. Fuckity fuck fuck. Hopefully fixing is cheaper than replacing. I had hoped to get a phone with limo or android for my next phone. But I’m not about to deal with crippled phone for the next several months. —

On a related note: if you want me to have your number, please comment here. All comments will be auto-screened to protect your digits from the big bad wolves. Email works good too.

Thanks, all!

Turns out, my phonebook was backed up online. Yay!

Triathlon complete. Time: 3 hours, 17 minutes (ish). Swimming a mile in 60 degree water isn’t as bad as you think (with a wet suit. =) My lower back and right knee hate me a little. But overall, yay!

made it to Seattle safe and sound. On an air mattress in ‘s living room. Playing board games with and hopefully others tomorrow (sadly, Jeremy bowed out). Take the bus out to vancouver on friday check out ubc. My actual weekend has no specific plans yet, but monday is the triathlon (my first! Olympic distance), then tuesday I check out SFU & head back to seattle. Wednesday I fly off to LA. Should be an entertaining week and a half.

People in any of those towns, feel free to say ‘hi’. =)

The following just flitted through my brain:

I am the apex of wasted potential
…
Nah, you don’t have that much potential.