Checklist

One more grad school app submitted. Or, 1/2 of a grad school app submitted: the part they make you pay $$$ for. $85, to be exact. Yikes.

We'll see how the rest of this application blitz goes.

For now, I've got to get to bed. Goodnight!

8th Grade Reading Level

Out of curiosity, I ran an analysis on this blog which determined the reading level of my page. As it turns out, this blog is somewhere in the 8th grade range. I apologize for that but not wholeheartedly. In fact, I don't apologize at all. I'm going to retract my previous statement. If you want good blog reading, you should probably follow my friends, Ashley and Ian. They're both pursuing advanced degrees in English or writing or something like that.

I, however, will be pursuing an advanced degree in higher education administration. More precisely, I will be pursuing a degree in student affairs administration or student development administration or college student services admin-- you get the idea.

However, I won't say that I wasn't concerned when I saw the low grade on my page. I ran sections of my statement of purpose through the "grader" to make sure I wasn't going to cheat myself out of hundreds of dollars; what I mean is, I don't want my SOP to look like a junior high schooler wrote it. To my relief, the SOP passages came back at a much higher difficulty rating, putting me in the range of college graduates. (Phew.)

I'm pretty pooped from studying for the GRE. I would say that I can't wait until Saturday for it to be done with, but the way things are going, I may have to take the exam again. Looks like the ETS just may get another $150 out of me. For what? Proving myself against the rest of grad school hopefuls, I suppose.

Brrrrrr.

Fall is here.

Thanks for the sun today, Seattle. I guess it really is "Sun"day.

I put in my first graduate school application yesterday afternoon. Alright-- so I only turned in the online portion. I had to pay, though, so that counts for something. I still need transcripts from Western and a LOR to come in, and then I can send in the rest. I wonder if the school will allow me to just walk the application to the admissions office. I live four blocks away. I'm going to save my stamps, darn it.

Short post for today.

Yo Patrick Swayze

This picture has nothing to do with anything in this post, except for maybe Idaho and weddings. Other than that, I just think it's great. Check out Cameron's goatee. Moving on...

Another celebrity gone this year. Funny how it coincided with another engagement announcement. MJ dies; Tanja tells us she's engaged. PS dies; Kate tells us she's engaged. I wonder if Beth killed any celebrities with her engagement.

I just had a horrible thought. What if, when I get engaged, Ben Gibbard dies? Or Justin Timberlake? Or Morgan Freeman? I think that would be enough of a sign for me to reconsider the whole thing. Blame it on being half-Filipino-- I'm supersticious.

I've added a few more places to my "Places to Visit" list. Fiji and Puerto Rico are both on there, as well as the city of San Diego. Places I'd like to re-visit include Cannon Beach, OR and Priest Lake, ID.

On that same note, I'm thinking of booking a campsite for Memorial Day weekend 2010 at Priest Lake. I'm 99% sure Cameron will at least be able to go with me, and we're hoping a few other people can join. It's a max of 8 campers and 1 vehicle, though, so we'll see. If it all falls through and it's only him and me, that's fine; that will be our 3-year annivesary weekend, anyway.

I went shopping at the co-op just down the street. It was wonderful. I would have purused for longer, but I was hungry and knew I would spend way too much money if I did that. I came home, and I was ready to make myself a real meal, but all I wanted was a salad and some frozen yogurt. Not as hungry as I originally thought, apparently.

Anyway, please don't ask me when I'm getting engaged. It will be a long time from now. In the meantime, please feel free to ask me about my plans for graduate school. I'll be happy to entertain you with my ideas of where I'd like to study and what I would like to do.