| Current mood: |  restless |
| Current music: | Pretty Woman |
Heavy weights...
Lots of stress lately. Not only do I have some big projects coming up, the end of the semester in only a few weeks (didn't it just start???), and general, everday schoolwork, I'm also really getting started on my grad school applications. I was actually working on two a few minutes ago, but put them aside to update this instead. I've got a list of seven that I plan on applying to, as long as I can scrounge up the money. I think it costs a lot of money to get the official GRE scores mailed to them (rumor has it, 20$ per school!), plus the application fees... I think my next few school paychecks will be going to that. Oh well... it will all be worth it in the end (I hope!)
My list of schools is currently:
Ball State (Indiana)
Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Chicago:) )
Adler School of Professional Psychology (Chicago)
Marquette University (Wisconsin)
Bradley University (Peoria)
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Western Kentucky University (Kentucky)
I think I might actually be looking at Stout in Wisconsin, too :) They sent me information on their Marriage and Family therapy program, so I'll be looking at that here soon enough.
This weekend was an extremely low-key one, almost to the point of boredom. Friday night, I ate pizza with United Campus for Women (one of the groups that I"m involved with), then went to see a speaker that we had brought to campus. She talked about eating disorders, but put a comic (but not mocking) twist to the lecture. It was really good.
Saturday I worked in the admission office for a few hours, then worked on some grad school stuff, watched tv, then watched a movie with Courtney. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Jim Carey and Kate Winslet... It was interesting, but I'm going to have to watch it again to understand it better. I think I'll really like it if I can get a fuller grasp of what happened :) Not long after that, Courtney, Yuka (a Japanese exchange student who lives on our floor), and I went to Wal-Mart (eeeeeevil) to get some knitting supplies. Yuka wanted to learn how to knit, so we had to get some yarn and needles. We also got some good ol' frozen dinners (dining hall food is not good at all on the weekends), came home, and had a microwave feast. Yum, yum.
We spent most of the night teaching Yuka to knit, watching tv, and listening to Courtney sing bad renditions of David Bowie songs :)
This morning, I walked to church, then came home, had lunch, read my book (White Oleander, very good). At 2, Courtney's friend Clay come over, and the three of us watched Labyrinth (more David Bowie!), and then some Carl Sagan, and then just spent time hanging around and talking. Dinner was ramen noodles and chips (mmm, healthy). Worked some more on grad school applications, then found Pretty Woman on TNT, so Courtney and I are watching that.
I did so much homework last week, that I got to take the weekend off from a lot of it. I did that on purpose, thinking it would be so nice to take the weekend off from it all, but it left me feeling very... I don't know, without a driving purpose. Interesting.
This week will be much of the same old, same old. I don't think I have anything too interesting planned... except for more homework and grad school applications. Excitiiing.
I need happy news and motivation.
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