Oil!

I don't really know what I have been doing these last few days.

This weekend was fun, there was alot of drinking and what not going on. John and Gallagher came down which was a nice change of pace. It was good to see them.

I almost died in the epic and infamous fire in Presidential Tower which was really the first time I have ever been in a place where there actually was a fire. It was kind of surreal to have all of those lights flashing and alarms going off still in a drunken, half asleep daze. Running down 11 flights of stairs hearing that woman's mechanized voice repeat "this is a real emergency, do not use the elevators" brought flashes of 9/11 to my mind. Except this time I was in the WTC and not watching it in my living room. And wading in the hallways with an inch of water from the sprinklers coupled with the smell of smoke just made me think of Titanic. I have pictures of all of this but they don't really do justice to the feel of the whole escapade.

Now was there a real, life threatening fire? No. I think someone lit some trash on fire with a cigarette, but when it's 4 am, you smell smoke, and all of the alarms are going off you have little choice but to treat it as a real true life emergency.

And now I have a cold. Well it's not really a cold my nose is just all stuffed up and I clear my throat about every 2 seconds. I'm sure it annoys all of the people around but most of the time I don't even know I am doing it. So sorry people around me, I don't mean to be annoying.

I'm also STILL waiting to hear back from grad schools. I literally got my applications in September. How long does it take to look at a application? Sometimes I seriously question the organization of some of these places. Although the process is somewhat overly complicated. I mean you have to first apply to the graduate school itself, then the actual program, and if you're doing a joint degree double that. So that's 2 separate applications with three offices looking at your application, essays (which are different for each program), 3 letters of recommendation from all over the country, plus your GRE scores which are sent by an entirely different entity in itself and transcripts (I almost forgot about those). But still how hard is it to run all that shit through the "admission council"? I put it in quotes because I really don't know what constitutes the "admission council" it may a computer for all I know. But I have hope that I'll hear soon. Then it's on to craigs list to find an apartment in Milwaukee (that's the hope anyway). We'll see. Anyone know anyone in Milwaukee? I only know a few people and I don't even know if they live there anymore...

And now its 7 o'clock.. where did this day go? See what I mean? I don't know what I've been doing.