And every time I see your face, the oceans heave up to my heart; you make me wanna strain at the oar

Well, today I saw the third movie to ever make me cry.

As a break from the grad apps, I took my parents to Finding Neverland this afternoon. Oh. My. God, that movie was SO GOOD. ( mini-review, with spoilers )

In other news, diversity workshop went OK - not as big a waste of time as I'd expected, though there were things I'd much rather have done with those NINE HOURS AUGH. I'm looking forward to going back to work and seeing everyone on Monday. Classes, not so much, but I'm getting there. (Break needs to be longer, dammit! Why don't we start after MLK Day, anyway? It seems kind of stupid to go for a week and then get a day off. Better to give us one when we need it, in the middle of the semester!)

Anyway, classes start Monday. Bleah.

( ...And a meme )

Edit: This is interesting, from calligrafiti: U.S. military exploring possibility of developing gay-aphrodisiac chemical weapon. XD

Edit 2: Apparently Tokyopop is handling their American comic creators rather unfairly. Hmmmm...

He promises me I'm safe as houses as long as I remember who's wearing the trousers

Whew! Iowa (at least the online part) and Cornell are submitted. That's two more down. Only four to go (Syracuse, UT-Austin, Rutgers, and Edinburgh). In related news, the only thing that's kept me even halfway sane during the whole process today is the shibbylicious Last.FM (thanks to jantalaimon for the heads-up).

For future reference, though, any of you who want to apply to grad school for this fall need to start doing so NOW unless you can afford grad school sans scholarships. Most schools' financial aid deadlines have already passed (in other words, you might get in but you'll get nothing but federal aid like loans and Pell grants) - I've squeaked in under a few, I think, though my reference letters will have to be coming later. (The only ones I've been looking at that have post-January financial aid deadlines so far are UT-Austin [2/1], Rutgers [3/1], and Edinburgh [sometime in mid-to-late March, I think].) So here's hoping I get something. *crosses fingers*

(And of course, if I get into Oxford, I'm going, aid or no aid. I mean, it's OXFORD, for cryin' out loud! I'll go out selling matches in a cute little frock if I have to in order to pay for it.)

Here's my schedule of classes, more for my reference than anything:

American Lit II - MWF 11-11:50 - Education 244
General Geology - TR 9:30-10:45 - Royall 404
Structure of English - TR 12:30-1:45 - Royall 403
Honors Colloquium - W 3-4 - Cockefair 104
Honors Senior Thesis - TBA (no actual class meetings, but a buttload of independent research; this is what I've been doing with the diary)

Short summary: The thesis looks like fun but a helluva lot of work; Geology looks boring but not too hard (and at least rathershady is taking it too); American Lit II is...well, American lit and hence I have very little interest in it (plus, one more time through Hemingway and I may have to kill someone); Structure of English is a linguistics class - 'nuff said; and Honors Colloquium will probably be the spectacular waste of time it usually is. Not the most fun of semesters, but it's the final one, hallelujah!

Edit: That should be American Literature I, which only goes up to the Civil War or thereabouts and hence should have no Hemingway, at least. :D