Ugh... I'm so tired. I just called a friend of mine to cancel our GRE study session. It was cool. She's in the regatta this weekend and had other things to take care of.

This is my week to lead the discussion in the cyberlit discussion groups. I think it went all right. I was a little surprised at how few people know about parody on the internet. There was a time when laughter was my only use for the interweb. It's still my dad's only use for it. I was really psyched to get to link everyone to nuklearpower.com. I sent the owner of the site a message telling him that we were coming to study his site, and he very kindly gave us a welcome in his Thursday rant. That was pretty cool. I hope the cyberlit students noticed it.

So, the interkajigger is kind of dominating my week. I've been emailing back and forth with all kinds of people in the hope that all my letters of appraisal will make it to the proper Rhodes secretary on time next week. I spent most of yesterday just trying to get all the necessary application materials together. Frankly, I'm pretty tired of the whole process. Until this point, it has all seemed rather thrown together at the last minute. I'm not sure why, but I have yet to be contacted by anyone (at all) from my university during any part of this process. I hear second hand that I should probably schedule this appointment or call about that interview, then I go do it myself. I'm not even sure the dean's secretary has my number, though I've given it to both of them several times. I don't realy blame anyone for this. People get busy (I stand as exhibit A). It's just a little tiring.

Yesterday I went to Walgreen's to get ten passport photos as part of the Rhodes application process. One of the highlights of my week was the look on the woman's face when I asked for so many. I almost wanted to play up whatever kooky idea she was thinking. ("Do you make passports here? How many do you think most international spies carry? Do you know the quickest route to Paraguay?")

I keep thinking that I have never put so much effort into anything with so little promise of return. Going through this process, it's almost like they don't want anyone to actually apply. I'm feeling a lot of frustration. So, I turn to the intertron. Webcomics, cartoon clips, reading my friends' blogs--it's all nice and relaxing. That, and free movie night was pretty cool.


quiet down. we're in a church.