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[Apr. 24th, 2007|11:46 am] |
Just figuring, if I update about grad school, I should also update about important stuff.
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This past Saturday, the 21st (my birthday, for those of you keeping track), Joie and I broke up.
It was a while in coming. For a long time she and I were just each other's stability. When she started hanging out with her new group of friends (this is a good thing, I wasn't jealous, just happy she was getting out), we both realized that some of her buddies were better boyfriends than I am.
That's not to say anything about those guys or her--I mean, just being her friends and hanging out, they did more for her than I did.
We're 21 and 22, and we'd been married for almost four and a half years. I'm going to England for a year and she finally quit working her life away, took out a loan, and has a social life. She has two years of the possibility for hanging out before crazy nursing crunch comes on--this is one of the last chances we both have to just date around. The breakup was almost comically mutual and calm. Not a lot of tears, just both of us agreeing that it was over.
I'm fine, though I'm sure I'll be asked ten thousand times between here and June. This is the only forum I really want people to ask or talk to me about the breakup in. Say your piece in the comments, because I really hate the idea of every conversation I have in the next four weeks being about this. Thanks folks. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2007|06:15 pm] |
This semester is -full- of candidates for "nicest thing anyone's ever said to me." The following is one of the leaders. From an email from Lisa to me and Ellen, in reference to our symposia:
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Both of you, I do thank for this last week's most wonderful pleasure. It's
a dear, dear thing to see two such people work so very hard and, then,
transcend not only their own expectations but the very best of mine (and
mine were set *high*). It's like having seen, in one single concert, Dylan
electrified and Joan Baez.
: )
As long as I live, I'll be remembering. *Thank you.*
Best good wishes--
Lisa
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| More Grad School. |
[Feb. 23rd, 2007|10:17 am] |
Birmingham's Cultural Inquiry just accepted me too.
Holla atcha Brummer. |
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[Feb. 10th, 2007|01:28 am] |
I guess their system sends out emails automatically at midnight...central.
Here it is.
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Dear Mr Greg (Genghis) Adam Philip,
We are delighted to inform you that we wish to offer you a place on the M.A. (Taught) Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication programme, and official confirmation with full details of the offer is being posted to you today. To accept our offer you will need to complete and return the Acceptance Form that will be included in your offer pack.
If you live in the UK your offer pack will be sent by first class post.
If you live outside the UK, the time it will take for the offer pack to arrive will depend on the postal service, but we know from experience that it could take up to four weeks. If it does not arrive within four weeks, please email us at: admissionsoffers@contacts.bham.ac.uk, quoting your ID number and programme title in all correspondence.
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Birmingham.
Roderick Smith
Director of Admissions
University of Birmingham
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[Feb. 9th, 2007|02:48 pm] |
Short of getting bags of money in the U.S., come next October, I will be a Brummer.
Processed Applications
Admission Term
Level
Programme
Latest Decision
Decision Date
2007/08 Session
Postgraduate Taught
Cultural Inquiry (M.A. (Taught) Full-time) 6229
Awaiting Decision
06,December 2006
2007/08 Session
Postgraduate Taught
Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication (M.A. (Taught) Full-time) 5929
Conditional Offer
09,February 2007
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Everyone I've spoken to has agreed that the Conditional part probably just means I need to graduate. I am ecstatic.
The hilarious thing is that David Hill, the guy who runs Cultural Inquiry right now, has been responding really helpfully to my questions-- finally I got out of him that he "hasn't heard from my referees (recommendations)." The BHam site says both my recommendations are in, meaning that since Critical Discourse has accepted me, they probably took both recs.
That's right.
My second choice program ninjed my recs.
He'll get back to me soon enough to let me know. But I figured all you kids out in LJ land should hear the good news. |
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| In which Genghis explains his academic future |
[May. 24th, 2006|04:53 pm] |
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I didn't get the Shakespeare job, but most people who care already know that-- so my summer is full of trying to find a job.
However, grades were fabulous. So fabulous, in fact, that they pushed me into Honors Thesis land for Lit Studies: I just got the email from Tom. I know it's not a big deal (lots of people get them), but I am excited to have another enormous academic paper (in addition to my Jean Theory symposium) to submit to graduate schools. Also "with honors" pads my resume later.
On Graduate School
I'm set on one school: the University of Birmingham (England, not 'bama). I intend to get my Masters in either Critical Discourse, Culture, and Communication or Cultural Studies. Now, there's the off chance I don't get in. From what I understand, the British system is a lot more lax at this level, because they've weeded out the chaff at undergrad acceptance. I'm not sure how Britain deals with international students, so this may actually be a harder sell than, say, University of Illinois or something.
If Birmingham becomes unviable-- through me fucking up, the programs being different than I thought, or through trouble with transferring international degrees-- I am looking at the following schools:
University of Chicago: Their English Literature and Language Masters would almost certainly lead to getting my PhD there as well. UC is the long-shot domestic app, and if I get in there, it will compete with Birmingham. I need to research both departments more.
Benefits: great interdisciplinary work, big name, beautiful campus, close to Joie.
Downsides: impossible to get in and no actual Discourse program.
St. Mary's College of California: I have a great letter of recommendation from their resident poet. They have an awesome Masters of Liberal Arts program-- it's IDST and has a really sweet breadth of coursework.
Benefits: good chance of getting in, great program for me, access and connections to tons of universities for jobs later.
Downsides: far away without the prestige of Birmingham, that Masters may not let me get a PhD in English (or, really, be respected anywhere), Catholic institution may mean my oppurtunities are limited (doubtful, but it depends on their divinity program: UC has Bruce Lincoln who's like a small god in the field of myth)
Stanford: Duh. They're really prestigious. They have a good Lit program, a cultural studies-esque "Modern Thought and Literature" program, and easy access to a great Law School and Law Library. This is important, because I want to do my Masters work on the Cultural Study of Law (you can hide that in literature because you're looking at legal texts).
Benefits: programs in my fields, prestige, excellent fellowship (scholarship) oppurtunities, access to legal minds.
Downsides: far the hell away, almost more worth it to go Ivy if I go Stanford, probably as hard as UC to get into.
University of Illinois: English program is almost precisely what I don't want-- though I'm sure that's largely a matter of their webpages sucking. The graduate program is a Masters of English Literature and Writing, and seems like it's largely bookish instead of research. Law school right next door though.
Benefits: Close(ish) to home, I live in the state so the tuition may be cheaper, law school and rhetoric departments are pretty good.
Downsides: It's U of I-- everyone and their mom goes there, huge, not prestigious since it's not engineering. Meh.
There are other places: Cal Berkeley, Various Random State Schools, and the Ivies that I may look into, but these are the schools I have done any research into at all.
I guess I should start studying for the GREs too, eh? |
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| Such a Beloiter post |
[Apr. 3rd, 2006|01:17 pm] |
I'm unreasonably angry about this article. I know I can't possibly be this angry about only this, but it's the spark that set me off. I spent most of last night finishing up a symposium that deals with Culture of Fear stuff, so I'm in a weird place mentally, and that kind of thing pisses me off.
The article talks about a group of teenage women placing lookalike Mario Blocks around their neighborhood on April 1. The town called in the fucking bomb squad to deal with this "problem," and now the girls face possible federal charges (unlikely, I know, but the point is that there is -any- legal action being taken).
How is it that people see a gold foil box with a pixelated question mark on it and think "that may be a terrorist attack"? Maybe I missed hearing about Al Queda's Arts and Crafts workshop, but this whole thing just seems ridiculous. This isn't even pranking, it's public art-- it is making a statement about the use of public space. What the hell does it say for where the American mindset is that the reaction was "it wasn't regulated, so it must be out to harm us"?
I am flabbergasted and dissapointed, but hardly surprised. |
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| Will is a Saboteur |
[Feb. 26th, 2006|02:05 pm] |
Apparently, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angrybunnyman decided he couldn't stand my not being on LJ any longer. ( From the Diaryx Site )
As such, thanks to angrybunnyman physically destroying my other online journal, I have no real reason to not use LJ. Boo on you ABM. Boo on you.
Anyway, I highly doubt I'll be posting particularly regularly, but I'll comment more. Also, I'll leave up the Hippie posts, as a marker in time.
-Genghis, fo' realsies this time. |
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[Feb. 13th, 2006|02:05 pm] |
OMG I'M SUCH A DAMN HIPPIE. TODAY I SMOKED BAD WEED I GREW IN MY CEILING. IT TASTED LIKE MILDEW AND dream_speaker'S SOCKS.
YOU SHOULD COME SMOKE UP WITH ME BECAUSE SMOKING DOPE MAKES YOU A HIPPIE WITH BROKEN CAPS LOCK. |
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| pink like my hippie insides. |
[Jan. 16th, 2006|11:02 am] |
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| Strengths: Not cleanliness, that's for damn sure |
| Weaknesses: Dirty, Hippie. 'nuff said. |
| Special Skills: Can roll in patchouli for hours. |
| Weapons: Dirty patchouli stink, vegan baked goods, goats. |
| Does he eat tofu: Oh yeah. |
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[Jan. 11th, 2006|12:31 pm] |
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Spare a cow, eat George Bush.
Yesterday I meditated to nirvana. I'm going do it again tomorrow while eating an apple because I'm a damn dirty, tofu eating, patchoulie smelling hippie. |
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[Jan. 5th, 2006|11:40 am] |
Yesterday I ate nothing but tofu becaues I'm a damn hippie and hippies love tofu. i love tofu. I could eat it every day, it's all silky adn yummy. I love it raw, braised, fried, sauteed, baked, pressed, sliced, diced, minced, tenderized, frozen, stirred, plain, grilled, drained, soaked, marinated and any other way a dirty hippie takes its tofu. Tofu looks like cheese but I hate cheese because I'm a damn dirty vegan hippie and it's cruel to animals, to take their milk. It is cruel to remove a liquid that they give away for free to their calfs. It hurts cows to make cheese out of their milk. Cows don't like cheese. People that eat cheese are corporate patsies adn should be milked in punishment.
I'm gonna go eat more tofu and burn some patchouli because I'm a damn hippie. |
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| Patchouli. |
[Jan. 2nd, 2006|03:58 pm] |
I'm a big damn hippie and I like smellin' like patchouli!
Yesterday, I rubbed patchouli incense ashses all over my body because I'm a damn hippie. I hope you like my smell because I'm a damn, dirty pathcouli-smellin' hippie. Tomorrow, I'm going to make tie-dye shirts out of organic cotton then eat a goat because hippies love goats! |
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| Me ≡ Hippie |
[Jan. 9th, 2005|05:55 pm] |
I'm a damn hippie! Blah blah blah! I don't need an LJ account even though all my friends are on it and they're free! Blah blah blah! I'm still a damn hippie even after this entry! |
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