Craptastic

So, right when I finally get the 1,001 Books book, they come out with another freaking edition with like 200 some odd (yes, I'm from York County, we say such things) additions and deletions. And most of the deletions are the ones that I read already.

So I'm totally keeping myself from going insane and am just sticking with the 2005 edition of the damn book. If I ever get through those, then I'll work on whatever the latest edition of the 1,001 Books happens to be.

Interested?

Check out this site, with the updated list as an Excel document with super-cool links and easy shopping.

I just need to save my sanity at this point, that's all. Especially since I've taken a bit of a break from the list. Harry Potter and I have been forming a lifelong friendship over break. I love him and the fact that I barely need to think when I'm reading them. Real page-turners, they are.

Nyquil = Godsend

I mean seriously, I don't think I'd have gotten even this far through finals week without it. No, I'm not addicted (I promise), I'm just sick...like always. I got hit with the York bugs like two days after I came back from Thanksgiving break, and they're making it really, really hard to do necessary things like study for finals and put together presentations. It's kind of annoying, but it's soon over (4 days until break!!).

On a better note, my grad school applications are done, transcripts ordered, GRE scores heading to (mostly) the right places. Now I just need to put together the applications for assistantships for Mville and UMBC. One's due Feb 1, so I'll get to it over break, I hope. I'm just ready for the whole process to be over--when I know if I got in, where I got in, and how much money I have to/don't have to pay to go. Basically, I need hardcore funding if I actually want to go. I'm already in student debt up to my eyeballs and have no desire to go in further (funny thing: AIG owns pretty much all of my student loans, and they've been hounding me to pay some interest on my student loans. Think they need capital right now?). So, until April rolls around and I get my aid packages and such, I'm keeping an eye out for anything job-wise that I might be remotely interested in. Oddly, despite what everyone is calling a depression in York, there's actually some pretty interesting entry level jobs available in fun things like school publicity & media relations. Too bad they're looking for people to start right away or I would have applied.

I'm just so over school. I'm not gonna lie, 2 more years of this seems pretty daunting.