Okay, anyone out there into the file-swapping thing, is there an MP3 of Tom Waits covering “Eve of Destruction” out there somewhere? It’s driving me totally insane right now just thinking about it, and my resident file-swapping guru can’t help me because she’s across the pond with her fiance right now. Gurg.
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I just sent my first grad school application out to Michigan. It’s kind of a difficult thing for me to do; I feel like I’m putting myself out on the line even more than usual with my stuff. And of course there’s always that fear of rejection I’ve got gurgling in my system. Still, I’m sending seven apps out (at the suggestion of my academic advisor, I’ll also be applying to the Universities of Oregon and Indiana, in addition to the others I listed earlier…
It took over two years, but I finally had my first experience of running into someone from my private school on UT’s campus. Thankfully it was one of the good people — there weren’t that many good people at that school, believe me — and she seemed cool with all the changes that had happened since I graduated, including that one. In all honesty, though, it kind of freaked me out a bit. I’ve never really learned how to deal with situations like that, and…
Great. So when I should have been working on my portfolios tonight, I went and played Super Mario 3 most of the night because I got fixated on completing the game as quickly as possible after posting that video clip to Backwash. And mind you, I was playing Super Mario All-Stars, beginning on Level 8 with 97 lives and a boatload of stuff in my inventory, and … well, okay, I did keep track of how many lives I lost just to beat the final…
New on Backwash: “Michael”. Against my better judgment, my (very brief) thoughts on the whole Michael Jackson thing going on.