Lol cats

Once again, six months behind on the greatest new thing. Check out the cats. The cheezebuger cat reminds me of Hrothgar.

Graduate

I'm going to grad school!

I got word yesterday from Temple that was admitted to the School of Social Administration for the degree of Master of Social Work.

I'm still giddy.

Of course, the admissions process has left a lot to be desired. Last fall I scrambled and submitted my application (3 letters of references, a "goals" essay, transcripts and a $50 application fee.) As of November 6, the university cashed my check. I assumed everything was hunky dorey.

But time moved on and i hadn't heard anything after the New Year. But the deadline was February, so I didn't worry about it.

In March I finally called only to find that Temple "lost" my application. It "fell between the cracks." They did find my application but not the proof that they took my money, so I supplied a copy of the cashed check.

Then I waited. And waited.

I checked on the uni's nifty intranet site for graduate school admission status. Every time it said my status was "undecided."

So I waited some more.

This week I decided I had waited enough and called the admission office. Yesterday they left a message on my machine saying that I was accepted in March and they hadn't heard from me if I was still planning on attending classes in the fall. Was I still interested? They don't know why an acceptance letter was never mailed to me.

My god. Temple has about the worst admission office ever. I swear to you, as of Thursday night, my little Temple intranet site still said I was "undecided." It's changed today.

I guess my accepted "fell between the cracks" too. If the school didn't have a really good reputation, I'd have second thoughts about attending. However, every Temple graduate I've spoken too has told me that the administration leaves a lot to be desired. They're not joking.

On the bright side, Andy called me at work yesterday to play me the message on the answering machine. I was so excited I just shouted out in the office, "I'm going to grad school!!!"

Allergies

Despite my carefully thought out plan for coping with allergies this year, after the slaughter last year, I devised a defensive scheme I lovely thought of as "Operation Allergen Avoidance." Not the snazziest title, but what you going do?

So my plan was a two prong defensive maneuver: allergy medication and constant dusting/vacuuming.

I had some drippy nose issues, but it was working.

As it turned out, the plan did not work.

I woke up in the wee hours of Sunday sneezing. I woke up sneezing. That's never happened before. And it's been a constant barrage of sneezes ever since. I walked around the office yesterday with a box of tissues.

This morning I slowly got out of bed and sneezed. I felt like I was hit by a truck. I took a shower and sneezed, which is the worst thing in my opinion. Once mid shower and needing to sneeze, what do you do? You're wet, tissues are useless.

Anyway, by the time I got out of the shower, it was 7. Seven! I managed to spend 45 minutes in the shower this morning. That has never happened. I think I actually fell asleep. Anyway, I took the missing half hour as a sign that I should stay home. I wasn't fit enough to manage my time and I certainly wasn't fit enough to drive into work in crazy Philly rush hour traffic.


So my day has been sneezing and napping. It's nice. I've closed the windows and turned on the air conditioning, which I hate to do when it's not warm outside and it makes me feel like I'm personally causing global warming, but the AC filters the air and reduces tree pollen.

Stupid trees. Why does there have to be so many trees in Pennsylvania? In Kansas I knew exactly what tree pollen I'm allergic too (cottonwood) but here...Who knows? The damn state is wall to wall trees.

Happy Birthday Athene!

Whoo! Happy Birthday, Athene.

And I just learned from Omouse's blog that Athene's getting married! Double Whoo! Oh hell, let's make it a full-on Woot!

Woot!