New on Backwash: “A Very Backwash Christmas”. I’m still so fucking wiped from finals and the GRE it’s not fucking funny, so I half-assed a “Christmas List” column and cobbled together a bunch of links I’d been saving for other purposes. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go back into a catatonic state here.
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Verbal: 750Math: 800 If I do say so myself, BOO-FUCKING-YAH. Now watch as I get the official results in a few weeks, they knock off 300 points and I only get a 3 or 4 on the writing section. For now, though, I’m feeling a hell of a lot more confident about my grad school apps, even if my 4.0 gets flushed down the toilet this semester.
Oh, hi. So here’s the thing: my only “final” final was Monday, and I had two papers due this Friday but I got both of them turned in before Monday too. So Monday at around 1830 I left campus completely done with my penultimate semester at UT. Fun, huh? The thing is, I went ahead and got a book to study for the GRE with, and that’s kind of been keeping me more than slightly occupied. Well, that and the copy of NFL 2K3 I…
New on Backwash: “Something for the Holidays”. Just what the title implies, as I go totally polemical thanks to a television commercial I’ve had to watch these past few Decembers. I think you know the one.
According to Bengals.com, the Bengals would hold the tiebreaker over the Ravens if both teams win out at this point. I know, the Bengals winning at St. Louis next week is a longshot, but it’s not a total impossibility. They may pull this one out yet. At the very least, they’ve matched the record for greatest one-year turnaround in NFL history, plus guaranteed their first non-losing season since 1996. That counts for something, right? As far as the other news of the day goes, I’ll…