On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Woo-hoo!
I have a thesis advisor! *breaks into a violent, thrashing Happy Dance*
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Graduate school searching
Graduate school searching is scary. In part because I don’t have a very narrow focus for my interest yet. Something in such-and-such an area. That makes it a little more difficult to email professors with related interests, but since the more important part at this stage is forming a rapport (in my opinion), it’s not a major hindrance. The other complication, of course, is my relationship with WO. He’s looking for graduate schools, too. We’ve decided to perform our searches largely independently, so as not to unduly bias the other. We’ll compare notes later and hope we can settle on either the same school or different schools in the same…
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Midnight linkage
blackfeminism.org » Racism or Random? You decide? » As much as I dislike Wal-Mart, I’m inclined to call this random. Maybe I’m naive. This page includes a link to a site with a screenshot of the offending page. Wal-Mart Blames Web Site Incident on Employee’s Error » Hijacked from blackfeminism.org: Wal-Mart puts its foot in its mouth again.
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Midnight linkage
Sex Offender Uncovered by Students on Intarweb » "The 22-year-old man told students he was 17 and that he was ‘Caspian James Chrichton Stuart IV,’ the ‘Fifth Duke of Cleveland.’" — See, now, that’s just silly.
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Midnight linkage
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail » "Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity." Report: TSA Screener Spending Uncontrolled – Forbes.com » Seven hundred forty-one million dollars, folks. To recruit. They’d planned for just over one hundred million dollars.