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It’s been a while since I’ve updated, amirite? Part of the reason was that I had to keep something a secret but most of the reason was that I’m easily overwhelmed by my to-do list.
I sent in my applications for 3/4 of the schools on my list, the last of which isn’t due until January 15th, and I should be sending all of that one in around the 1st. My GREs were pretty late in arriving to me, so I seriously doubt they reached Stanford in time. Even if they did, the address on the transcripts was insufficient for USPS (but not FedEx), so they were returned and had to be re-sent. Stanford feels like it was doomed for me.
Ohio State . . . well, I may not have sent the GRE scores to enough offices. Their instructions didn’t match at all the actual process of requesting GRE scores these days. I think UMich is still in good standing. Cornell is still not submitted.
I was just getting two of the apps done for good when edchii came up to visit for a few days starting on the 7th I think. We watched some stuff and she made me many pancakes. Come Tuesday, crazyloststar arrived in my city via our tiny but international airport as a Christmas gift from her parents and a birthday gift for sky_dark, whom we were heading down to visit on that Thursday the 13th.
On the way down (and for the month before), we’d been thinking up ways to reveal that crazyloststar had in fact come with us, but it was all for naught. Sky was asleep when we finally rolled in around midnight, so we had crazyloststar wake her up, and I think Sky screamed a little. Awesome. XD
Got to hang out with sky_dark, wiccat, heironymousb, hieadenna, psycholullaby, sami-chan and hakuyama for almost a week before we sadly had to leave on Wednesday morning! I should have pictures soon. Sky, wiccat, and crazyloststar took all the photos.
Got home with edchii, and then she had to leave on that Friday, and then I spend the weekend downloading World of Warcraft and working on my elricmas fic, which I finished in the nick of time. Then I went back to World of Warcraft.
Spent Christmas Eve at the aunt’s as usual, where I got a cute fleece cardigan from my parents. Then, on Christmas morning at my parent’s, I found a small pile of prezzies I hadn’t been expecting. I had wanted the iPod Classic, but didn’t think they’d actually get it . . . and then on top of that, they got me a laptop cooling pad, four seasons of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, an iFish, chocolates, and a small boombox that can dock iPods. That, though, is staying with mom because it doesn’t accommodate the Classic (wtf) and I’m giving her my old 1G Nano in return, so she can use it with that.
It’s been years since I got so much for Christmas . . . and so much I honestly didn’t expect. My parents spoil me so much. <3
It may be coming to a close here on the east coast, but Merry Christmas!
But I arrived around 5pm at LAX–that’s L-A-X, not lax–and miracle of miracles, crazyloststar found me at the airport after I got my luggage! Then we hung out at her parents’ for a bit, got food, and took off around 10pm for the drive up to San Mateo with her awesome sister, Itch.