Applications Updates

I'm still a bit ambivalent about the whole thing, but I'll write more about that later. Meantime, here's an update:

I finished entirely the two applications -- MSU and UCDavis -- which are due this Wednesday (thank god): everything done, all transcripts and letters sent, etc.

For UO everything's done except the letters of recommendation.

For Rochester and UConn, all the electronic bits are done, but I need to accumulate some things and mail them, then wait for letters of recommendation.

For Albany, I need to find out a little more information and finish submitting it all electronically, then wait for letters of recommendation.

So things are ticking along, and it's only taking a huge amount of effort while simultaneously working on Christmas, etc. Yay!
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Climate Spring Break! Wooh!

As the governments and their leaders the international corporations meet in Cancun for Spring Break...I mean, the climate change conference, holding their meeting in a gated resort full of golf courses which are fed by sprinklers as the poor in Mexico struggle to get water, I thought I'd provide a link to a short parable I wrote last year when this same amount of time-wasting was happening in Copenhagen. This year they debate whether or not to commoditize endangered animals and trade those animals' lives on an open market. For coverage of the spectacle, check out Democracy Now this week and last. (for those of you reading this FROM THE FUTURE, DN has a good archive function.)
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