I am boring. Bummer.

My life these days follows a terrible pattern: coffee, work, more coffee, more work, sleep a bit (but not enough. never, of course, enough)

lather
rinse
repeat

It is dreadful.

Only one week left before I submit these damn scholarship applications to the powers-that-be who will decide my fate. I cannot wait to have them out of my hands; they have been an extraordinarily lonely process, and I will be happy to be through with it all.

The one bright spot this summer has been STEP. I've been working with the ESL/intensive classes this year and they are pretty awesome. I get to read their journals and most of the time I feel refreshed because they are not yet jaded and that is nice because I am and it is good to be reminded of alternatives to things.

Indeed.

Wow. Exciting life update, huh?

Some day my soul might be revived enough to find something to say.

Until then, I would love you all forever and ever and will shower you with cookies and ponies and stuff if you would keep your fingers crossed (or whatever it is you do to direct positive universal energy in one's direction) that I at least get an interview for one of these scholarships, because it will suck major salty balls if I don't :( So please, if you could help a gal out, that'd be really swell. (is it bad karma to ask? I try not to ask for much...)