I got my first rejection letter today. That sucks. I am glad that it wasn’t from my first choice, but it was from my second-choice program, which doesn’t bode well for my chances of getting into my first-choice program.
I’m experiencing serious tech lust. I want this.. Now. In 12-inch with SuperDrive. Did I mention now? I really should wait for the rumored G5. I should also wait until I’ve moved out. And I most likely will. But damn…
Well, this semester has been much less stressful than the last one was. So far, anyway. I do have quite a few things going on like I did last semester, but the main difference is that I no longer have 5 senior-level classes all at once and I don’t have the ever-looming huge dark cloud of graduate school application due dates looming over my head. So, these things are better.
The thing that is not better?
My honors project. I’m going to that meeting in Chicago in March, right? Well, they want completed papers to be given to the panel chairs by the 15th of February. Personally, I think they’re all insane, but I’m told that I have to play by the rules. This really wouldn’t be a problem if I had the paper written. Or if I had a draft. Or if I knew what I really wanted to say in it. Well, I know what I want to say, but I don’t quite know how to say it. I know I will eventually find a way, though. My adviser also told me that it will be okay if I focus on the easy part of this project (analyzing Fargo using criminological and psychological theories) for the presentation and then add on the hard parts (discussing the effects other films and the culture have had on Fargo, as well as Fargo’s effects on other films and the culture–I’m not a film critic, eep!) later for the final due date at the end of the semester, which will make things easier on me. So, this part isn’t that bad.
Want to know the thing that really really sucks?
I am so totally lacking in motivation that it’s quite sad. I really don’t know what kind of motivation I need other than that very soon due date, but apparently I need something!
Someone light a fire under my ass, please!
You know what the singles of the world need? Mate-Marts. Nice little places with a wide selection of potential mates…ideally, every single person in the world would submit their information to the Mate-Mart database, which would be thoroughly searchable by other singles. One could simply walk into their nearest Mate-Mart, pay a small fee for the permission to search the database, enter the characteristics he or she is looking for, and turn out a few people that he or she might like to date. Then the searcher could contact the searchees and see if the people their search turned up are really the sort of people that he or she is interested in developing a relationship with. Of course, one of the problems would be that a person rarely actually needs what he or she wants, but I think the Mate-Mart would be a nice fix for people who are open to the possibilities that it would offer.
And it would get me a date :p.
I just wasted the last 2 hours of my life trying to get a demo installation of GoBinder to work. It’s supposed to be a “digital replacement for your 3-ring binder,” aimed at students. For starters, the “mobilization” feature did not work with Blackboard or Outlook. It refused to connect to my university’s Blackboard server for no apparent reason and refused to connect to Outlook because Outlook is not my default mail client. It did, however, connect to my Palm, but when it synched the task list, I was left with a mess of tasks and no way to categorize them, which is essential to keeping my mind in any sort of working order. The user interface looks nice, but it’s hard to figure out what you’re supposed to do with all the different (yet oh-so-the-same) options. It’s possibly the least intuitive piece of software I’ve ever encountered. For example, there are “daily notes” and “notes,” and apparently they’re different somehow but it’s beyond me to figure out how. The whole program is maddening. It’s supposed to save you time, but I can’t even get it to do what I need it to do in the first place.
Sorry about the rant. I’m off to cleanse my hard drive of this waste of 29 MB now.