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Jun. 20th, 2008 01:09 pmBusy week!
* On Monday, Elena and I met my sister and some of her friends in a small upstate town. We wandered around, ducked into music stores and consignment shops, and then ate at a New Age hippy-Christian cafe. Most of the lunch conversation I remember centered on gnomes, oddly.
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samtheeagle drove over here, and we went out for sushi (okay, he avoided all the raw fish) and then we came home and talked till late. Discussed: western New York and the apocalypse (those may have been connected) and Nice Jewish Boys (=no such thing).
* On Thursday, Elena and I had a playdate that stretched into dinner time - i.e. the menfolk came home from the office in time for food. :) We made lemonade from scratch, which involved many toddler fingers, but was quite tasty nevertheless. It was all great fun, and we all enjoyed ourselves.
That? Is like waaaaay more social than I usually do. Wow. It's been fun.
This morning, I took a practice test for the GRE (their downloadable software, so it's on your computer, and mimics the actual test). The writing part SUCKED - I mean, I am basically able to write coherent grammatical sentences, but it's been a looooong time since I've done much writing other than email or LJ (and I don't think that style of prose would be welcome). I need to work on that. But I did reasonably well on the traditional math & verbal sections. (Okay, veryveryvery well on verbal, perfectly reasonable / able to get by on math.)
So. I need to schedule myself a test date. And work on writing issue / argument essays from their list of topics. And maybe study geometry and ratios/fractions/that stuff a little. Okay, that's do-able, I guess. I'm looking at September deadlines for grad school applications - mostly for the Spring 09 semester (although in one case, the deadline is September 1, and classes start like 3 weeks later).
Up next: dealing with recommendation letters and writing a Statement of Purpose. Eeeeuch.
* On Monday, Elena and I met my sister and some of her friends in a small upstate town. We wandered around, ducked into music stores and consignment shops, and then ate at a New Age hippy-Christian cafe. Most of the lunch conversation I remember centered on gnomes, oddly.
* On Tuesday,
samtheeagle drove over here, and we went out for sushi (okay, he avoided all the raw fish) and then we came home and talked till late. Discussed: western New York and the apocalypse (those may have been connected) and Nice Jewish Boys (=no such thing).* On Thursday, Elena and I had a playdate that stretched into dinner time - i.e. the menfolk came home from the office in time for food. :) We made lemonade from scratch, which involved many toddler fingers, but was quite tasty nevertheless. It was all great fun, and we all enjoyed ourselves.
That? Is like waaaaay more social than I usually do. Wow. It's been fun.
This morning, I took a practice test for the GRE (their downloadable software, so it's on your computer, and mimics the actual test). The writing part SUCKED - I mean, I am basically able to write coherent grammatical sentences, but it's been a looooong time since I've done much writing other than email or LJ (and I don't think that style of prose would be welcome). I need to work on that. But I did reasonably well on the traditional math & verbal sections. (Okay, veryveryvery well on verbal, perfectly reasonable / able to get by on math.)
So. I need to schedule myself a test date. And work on writing issue / argument essays from their list of topics. And maybe study geometry and ratios/fractions/that stuff a little. Okay, that's do-able, I guess. I'm looking at September deadlines for grad school applications - mostly for the Spring 09 semester (although in one case, the deadline is September 1, and classes start like 3 weeks later).
Up next: dealing with recommendation letters and writing a Statement of Purpose. Eeeeuch.
