Thursday, February 26, 2009

Stuff I looked at/ate today

Read:
An Anthropological History of Drums in the Americas
A Natural History of Latin
Nietzsche in 90 minutes
Deer Hunting with Jesus

Ate:
oatmeal with blueberries, agave-maple syrup blend
glass of milk (WHOLE, not skim)
chocolate filled milanos
cream cheese covered whole wheat bagel
spinach salad w/ cranberries, goat cheese, and vinaigrette
more milanos
two slices of bread w/ butter
starbucks tall coffee (thanks daddy!)
and on my way to eat a chipotle veggie burrito!

**DISCLAIMER**
I am extremely bored, which is why I am telling you everything I put in my mouth and head today.

I also browsed an ungodly number of websites, including the table of condiments periodically expire. I contemplated many different haircuts that might look good on me, as well. Yes a productive day it has indeed been! And I can't forget the hours of NPR I listened to...

Gray Skies

I am feeling very blah today.

Blah indeed.

I have no job. I have gotten the first in what is likely to be a chain of rejection letters from grad schools. Proof that a ticket into elite financial security is not as easy as spending countless hours and $100 each on grad school applications.

To boot, I cannot find a professor who is willing to take on my research project that would be my senior thesis. Namely, I want to study gay space in the context of Kampala, Uganda. But the most explicative response I got was that such a project requires a strong background in sexuality studies, which I don't have. So there is not enough time to do justice to such a project apparently. Oh well... perhaps a project for graduate school...

The icing on the cake is finding casey's and my bike in the basement commons of my apartment building with the lock forcibly removed by pliers... Maintenance was painting and the bikes were in at the end of the hallway. Instead of sending an email to us to remove the bikes, they just cut the locks off. That's $40 down the drain. Thanks David Day.

I am not too entirely downtrodden. I did get into OSU's geography program. I don't know what kind of stipend I'll be getting, if any at all, but at least there is some peace of mind in that knowledge. Also, not working is kind of nice. I like waking up and not having anything to do but surf the internet ceaselessly.

Unfortunately, I can't afford to not have a job. Not that job searching would be fruitful in anyway given the increasingly piss poor shape of the economy. Oh well, I am going to Florida next week to bask in the sun on a lovely beach far away from the cold. I can at least be thankful that I will have spent 7 of the 12 coldest Ohio weeks in the warmth of equatorial Africa/Florida. On that note, I am off to pack my sunscreen and towel. Yes you have permission to hate me.