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status update, question
May. 22nd, 2012 01:20 pmBack in Ellensburg, really missing New Orleans -- for the first time, I've actively noticed that even smells different here, which should have been self-evident but which I've never really noticed. New Orleans, I miss you, please can I come back? Also, why am I going somewhere where the climate is basically the same as Seattle when what my body is really craving is subtropical heat and humidity and ooh, some goddamn sunshine? Also gumbo and one of those guava-sweet cheese pastries.
Meanwhile, since I actually went to the trouble of graduating and all (also, wow, am I smiling like a maniac in the official photos or what? I HAVE NO MEMORY OF THIS), I am trying to gather up the conditions for my unconditional acceptance to Leicester, which are a copy of my final transcript (which I'm going to have to fax to Tulane, since, hey, right now online requests aren't going to include Spring 2012, which is what I need, and then it's going to take a week or two to actually get to England. Or they can fax it to me and I can scan it and e-mail it, which might be faster. Man, I wish my stupid university - or alma mater, I guess *tear* -- would just issue electronic copies of the transcript), a copy of my degree certificate (scan my diploma and e-mail it, I guess), and two satisfactory academic references. Which what I assumed originally was just what they had actually asked for in the actual application, which was the contact info for the profs who were giving me recs (it turns out that only one prof actually wrote the rec). Only now I'm starting to worry that they want actual letters of reference, but wouldn't they have said that in the acceptance letter? Is this one of those U.S./UK translation misunderstandings? Should I just e-mail the post-graduate admissions office and ask what information they want when I give them the references? (I assumed just names, positions, departments, contact info.)
*sigh* I can't start applying for my visa until I get all this information in and Leicester gives me (or the consulate, whatever) a confirmation of acceptance of studies.
Also I have to dig a sewage ditch and stack wood because hey, life in the country. (Except now now, because I think it's raining and I just picked up all these pinecones. I can haz NOLA back now?) (Also, ugh, if I have one more conversation with my dad about minority representation in the media, I may snap. There is a reason I am not out to my parents, let me just say.)
Meanwhile, since I actually went to the trouble of graduating and all (also, wow, am I smiling like a maniac in the official photos or what? I HAVE NO MEMORY OF THIS), I am trying to gather up the conditions for my unconditional acceptance to Leicester, which are a copy of my final transcript (which I'm going to have to fax to Tulane, since, hey, right now online requests aren't going to include Spring 2012, which is what I need, and then it's going to take a week or two to actually get to England. Or they can fax it to me and I can scan it and e-mail it, which might be faster. Man, I wish my stupid university - or alma mater, I guess *tear* -- would just issue electronic copies of the transcript), a copy of my degree certificate (scan my diploma and e-mail it, I guess), and two satisfactory academic references. Which what I assumed originally was just what they had actually asked for in the actual application, which was the contact info for the profs who were giving me recs (it turns out that only one prof actually wrote the rec). Only now I'm starting to worry that they want actual letters of reference, but wouldn't they have said that in the acceptance letter? Is this one of those U.S./UK translation misunderstandings? Should I just e-mail the post-graduate admissions office and ask what information they want when I give them the references? (I assumed just names, positions, departments, contact info.)
*sigh* I can't start applying for my visa until I get all this information in and Leicester gives me (or the consulate, whatever) a confirmation of acceptance of studies.
Also I have to dig a sewage ditch and stack wood because hey, life in the country. (Except now now, because I think it's raining and I just picked up all these pinecones. I can haz NOLA back now?) (Also, ugh, if I have one more conversation with my dad about minority representation in the media, I may snap. There is a reason I am not out to my parents, let me just say.)