What's this?
What could it be?
It's an update! So far, I have narrowed and expanded my lists of potential schools to the following:
First tier:
Texas Tech Univeristy
Florida State University
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Second Tier:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Georgia State University
The third tier has been eliminated, and certain universities that require the Subject test have also been eliminated, regardless of how nice they might have looked. I really don't want to take that test, and for the longest of times was thinking of only applying to places that wouldn't try to make me. But then I broke down and figured I might as well. But alas! (and you can tell here that I'm just heart-broken) The fastest I can get the Subject test taken and mailed is too late for their deadlines. Who says procrastination is good for nothing?
But on a serious note, the more I look at Wisconsin, the more I want to move there. There's just something sparkly about Milwaukee, Wisconisn. Isn't there? See it gleam in the frozen air? See it glimmer and dance about on the surfaces of eyes glazed over in a final hypothermatic slumber? Yes. That's it. There's something sexy about going to sleep most nights praying that your heat doesn't go out and that if it does, you wake up in time to not die. Romantic, you might call it.
And I've given some serious thought to Hawaii. No, not the party/beach kind of thought. I'm not one for either of those pastimes. The program itself looks mighty nice. Their website is well put together (something most universities cannot claim), and every Thursday there's an hour of academic pursuits during which there can be no meetings or classes. Like chapel, but for books. And it doesn't hurt that in moving there, I will become a monk by force. I've always wanted to live in a solitude from stuff. Meaning "nearly no stuff." I could live with a nice comfortable futon, a desk with chair, a single table with chairs, and closet. I don't watch enough TV to miss that, and in fact, have not plugged my TV/VCR into the wall in over a year. The problem comes from the fact that I currently have so much stuff that I can't bear to part with. I'd be forced to part with it. It would be a great cleansing.
In fact, I've decided that if I move to Wisconsin, I'd also partake in a cleansing of stuff. Not quite so drastic a cleansing, mind, but a cleansing nonetheless.
If, of course, I end up staying here or moving to an equally southern location, I would be tempted to not cleanse. And those are the more practical locations, anyhow. But I might seriously consider my two romantic climes if accepted there. Oh yes. Liquid sunshine or year-round snow storms. Think of the writing that would inspire!
Oh well. I have other things on my list.
End.
PS: my current fleeting goal is to get the PhD and then get another MA in library science. Then I can work my ass off at a library somewhere and be the severe looking marm in a bun going "SHHHhhhh!!!" What larks! <-- still, no one has guessed. How disappointing.
It's an update! So far, I have narrowed and expanded my lists of potential schools to the following:
First tier:
Texas Tech Univeristy
Florida State University
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Second Tier:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Georgia State University
The third tier has been eliminated, and certain universities that require the Subject test have also been eliminated, regardless of how nice they might have looked. I really don't want to take that test, and for the longest of times was thinking of only applying to places that wouldn't try to make me. But then I broke down and figured I might as well. But alas! (and you can tell here that I'm just heart-broken) The fastest I can get the Subject test taken and mailed is too late for their deadlines. Who says procrastination is good for nothing?
But on a serious note, the more I look at Wisconsin, the more I want to move there. There's just something sparkly about Milwaukee, Wisconisn. Isn't there? See it gleam in the frozen air? See it glimmer and dance about on the surfaces of eyes glazed over in a final hypothermatic slumber? Yes. That's it. There's something sexy about going to sleep most nights praying that your heat doesn't go out and that if it does, you wake up in time to not die. Romantic, you might call it.
And I've given some serious thought to Hawaii. No, not the party/beach kind of thought. I'm not one for either of those pastimes. The program itself looks mighty nice. Their website is well put together (something most universities cannot claim), and every Thursday there's an hour of academic pursuits during which there can be no meetings or classes. Like chapel, but for books. And it doesn't hurt that in moving there, I will become a monk by force. I've always wanted to live in a solitude from stuff. Meaning "nearly no stuff." I could live with a nice comfortable futon, a desk with chair, a single table with chairs, and closet. I don't watch enough TV to miss that, and in fact, have not plugged my TV/VCR into the wall in over a year. The problem comes from the fact that I currently have so much stuff that I can't bear to part with. I'd be forced to part with it. It would be a great cleansing.
In fact, I've decided that if I move to Wisconsin, I'd also partake in a cleansing of stuff. Not quite so drastic a cleansing, mind, but a cleansing nonetheless.
If, of course, I end up staying here or moving to an equally southern location, I would be tempted to not cleanse. And those are the more practical locations, anyhow. But I might seriously consider my two romantic climes if accepted there. Oh yes. Liquid sunshine or year-round snow storms. Think of the writing that would inspire!
Oh well. I have other things on my list.
End.
PS: my current fleeting goal is to get the PhD and then get another MA in library science. Then I can work my ass off at a library somewhere and be the severe looking marm in a bun going "SHHHhhhh!!!" What larks! <-- still, no one has guessed. How disappointing.
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