--- sound of hysterical laughter ---
Okay, back to reality.
I have been blogging, just not here. I'm writing a fictional blog (aka "blogfiction") and that is heaps of fun and has taken up a lot of my time. I'd already written most of the story in 3rd person, so I've been converting it to 1st person and trying to make it fit the concept of a blog, although my entries, by necessity, have to be longer than an average blog post. Anyway, if you're interested, you can check it out here: Caddie Emerging (first post)
This is what we've been dealing with lately on the college app front (just substitute the words "college essays" for "English lit project":
He did manage to get in his app to UChicago by the early app deadline of Nov. 1. Now he needs to get his butt in gear on the UT Honors College app, the UT 40 Acres Scholarship app, and the Rice Univ. application. ALL the UT stuff has to be in by December 1, I believe.
I'm so tired of pushing this kid to get stuff done. He was really fired up about getting everything in early back at the first of September, but then we discovered just how freaking many essays one has to write to apply to universities, and it all went downhill from there. I don't blame him. The whole system is stupid, but since I don't think it'll change between now and the time he has to get his apps in, we just have to live with it.
UT's football team has been REALLY stinking this year. We're not really into that, but I'm hoping maybe it'll mean fewer people will apply to UT if they thing the team is going to stink. Hey, I'm grasping at anything, here. UT is a very popular school and it's very hard to get in because of that. But you know that.
Anyway, we have a "Senior Parent/Student Brown Bag Lunch" coming up in another couple of weeks -- to measure for caps and gowns and to look at graduation announcement stationers. No way am I ready for this!
Ugh. Okay, I'm going off to do something else right now before I end up a teary mess sogging up the sofa ...
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