La Vie En Rose for 2006 April 18

I'm so exhausted right now that I even considered withdrawing for the quarter... but I quickly came to my sense. [That was a typo but I decided to leave it. Yes, I only have one sense.] I had a meeting with the grad advisor... We have an ongoing joke because his office is right next to Murphy's and I am always there to see her, not him. We discussed my thesis committee and he thinks who I have in mind will work fine. I am also thinking of taking French in the fall, though I won't get credit for it; I'll just be "taking advatage of the resources the university has to offer," which, few as they are, I may as well do when I can.

I don't know what else. PH said I have promise--in the context of further graduate studies, he also mentioned Yale, which presumabley means he thinks I could get in there. I ought to gather these nuggets and horde them together when I need them; sometimes I get so pathetically discouraged. And academic praise is surely a better source of comfort than drugstore cosmetics or chocolate... okay maybe not the latter.

I think if there is one thing I am really good at, besides being a nerd, it's working at the bookstore. I am really good at that. Of course I had to come running home in the middle of work today to make mom a cup of tea because she was freezing and insisted she wouldn't live an hour till Cheryl got back from Fresno. Lucky for us Len is coming back from NY and hopefully things will be a lot easier then. Big changes all around. No wonder I'm so tired. Can I go to bed yet? Still so much work... how will it ever all get done...