apparently haven’t been posting on my blog lately, as the whole wordpress dashboard interface has been updated since i was last here.
it’s too much for me to handle going anywhere on the internet beyond engrish, twitter and facebook anymore. all the internet manages to tell me is that i have more bills than there is money in my bank account. tragic.
in recent good news, however, i got my GRE subject test (literature in english) practice book, which is reassuring in that right there on the 2nd page is an excerpt from “rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead” which i already have mostly memorized (the whole play, mostly, that excerpt, maybe 80%). this is reassuring.
my lack of knowledge about how to read old english (damned not having priest (was is priest?) who made everyone read beowulf and canterbury in the original before handing over the modern english version) is dissappointing; my complete amnesia regarding the familial relations of the greek/roman deities and friends (aka who was sleeping with who in the iliad and beyond) is troubling, especially in light of the number of questions thereon with which the practice book taunts me.
so i have ordered $30 worth of study guide books from amazon, all to take this damned GRE subject test more than 4 months after turning in my PhD applications, and likely several weeks after the PhD programs have already made their selections, all because the GRE subject test is only offered 3 times a year, and the UA english dept is nice enough to review my application “pending” my score, because i didn’t take the GRE in august, which was far before i ever considered applying to their program. arrrrgh!
the $130 (test fee) + $30 (books from amazon) + $55 (taking time off work to take the damned test) had better darn well get me into the PhD program. or, they had better give me $200 or so. plus five hours of my life back. but you can’t just tack it on at the end. i’d like a good 5 hours of a saturday while i’m 25 years old. that would be useful. 5 hours tacked on at the very end, not nearly as much fun, i would think.
but then again, tomorrow is my grandmother’s 90th birthday, and i am baking her a cake.
more precisely, i have already baked the cake, and it is in cooling stage 2 (out of the pan, bottom layer already trimmed) waiting for the pre-bedtime icing extravaganza. i am supposed to cover it completely in chocolate chips, like i did for my dad’s birthday cake in december. i need to remember not to set precedents for myself, especially in regard to cake-decorating or other time-consuming tasks, lest i be asked to repeat the feat.
but, i don’t begrudge g-ma her cake. and i got 9 eggs out of it. well, my mom paid for the cake-ing supplies, which included a carton of eggs, of which i only needed 3. so now, 9 free eggs!
not a bad payment for my cake-cake-ing skills.
now i’m just rambling about cake. i wonder what my word cloud looks like now. possibly involving more cake and eggs than politics or squirrels. too bad it isn’t a politically squirrelly cake. featuring eggs. :)
