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Procrastinating for fun and profit
Jan. 6th, 2003 03:28 pmI'm eating my eighth Clementine orange (crack, I tell you!), drinking my second mug of tea for the day, and I've cleaned out my Inbox. The next step is replying to two old messages that I've been putting off for two months now, and then archiving all of 2002's old messages and having a new, clean Inbox.
I'm surrounded by Macs, so playing Pharaoh is right out. (I have, however, been rather tempted by the offerings at Spiderweb Software. I finished the Exile Trilogy a few years back, but they've redone the game system and called it Avernum....
No, bad Misha.
Nine days to finish all my essays, questions and form-filling-out and get my MLIS application finished. I'm not terribly worried about not getting in - I did once, so all I have to do is make sure my essay is similarly stellar. Because, really - I'm sure that's what did it the last time: on the one hand my grades were not the sort you speak about in polite company, and on the other my scores were quite good, and the balance hung on making myself memorable.
Now I have to treat it like a sequel: enough information to stand on its own, but not too much so as to treat the reader like an idiot who won't be looking at the previous application.
"It was a dark time for the Misha..." No, wait, too Star Wars.
"Three moves, two jobs, and an extra cat and a half later..." Um. no.
Bleah. I think I'll go do work instead.
I'm surrounded by Macs, so playing Pharaoh is right out. (I have, however, been rather tempted by the offerings at Spiderweb Software. I finished the Exile Trilogy a few years back, but they've redone the game system and called it Avernum....
No, bad Misha.
Nine days to finish all my essays, questions and form-filling-out and get my MLIS application finished. I'm not terribly worried about not getting in - I did once, so all I have to do is make sure my essay is similarly stellar. Because, really - I'm sure that's what did it the last time: on the one hand my grades were not the sort you speak about in polite company, and on the other my scores were quite good, and the balance hung on making myself memorable.
Now I have to treat it like a sequel: enough information to stand on its own, but not too much so as to treat the reader like an idiot who won't be looking at the previous application.
"It was a dark time for the Misha..." No, wait, too Star Wars.
"Three moves, two jobs, and an extra cat and a half later..." Um. no.
Bleah. I think I'll go do work instead.
