No time to blog

Considering nobody reads this blog and I don't do anything to promote it, I'm somewhat amused by the fact that I still feel guilty when I neglect it. 

Blog conundrum!

I have long posts composed in my head - some of them political, some of them serious, and some of them silly or ridiculous. Unfortunately, those'll have to wait. Right now I'm busy doing stuff like this:

1. Grad school applications.

I thought studying math for the GRE was the worst thing in the world, but then I hit the actual grad school applications. I'm currently trying to apply to three different universities, all in different areas of study, and I'm trying to get each of the schools to send transcripts from one school to the next. It's a joke. Colleges should give out honorary degrees for hoop-jumping. For example, I called BYU the other day to ask a question about the school's postbaccalaureate program. During the course of the conversation, the girl transferred me to the admissions office for some reasons, and my conversation with the poor office boy went like this:

Me: "So that girl said I need to send my transcript to you, but I don't think that's right."

Boy: "No, that's right. You just need to order a transcript and have it sent here."

Me: "I have to order my BYU transcript from BYU, and have BYU send it to BYU? Are you serious?"

Boy: " .... You know what? I'm going to ask somebody about that."

There's a reason I avoided talking to counselors and people in offices during college - they always give you bad advice and they NEVER know what they're talking about. 

2. Eurotrash of nerdom.

Make jewelry? Okay. Why? Dunno... It keeps me out of trouble, I guess.  I've spent a fortune on jewelry stuff, though, and currently have very little to show for it. Whoops.

3. Clayin' around.

The director of the Miss Utah Outstanding Teen pageant asked me to make a clay figurine of last year's titleholder. Figuring out how to make the crown was a nightmare that involved accidentally sticking a tube of super glue to my work phone and getting super glue on my teeth, but I managed to succeed despite my own idiocy. She asked me to make another one before Christmas, and I'm also supposed to make a princess for my cousin, so hopefully there's some creativity left in these fingers of mine.

4. Editing.

See that? That's 196 pages of 1.5-spaced type that needs to be edited. I spent the last month cutting 35,000 words out of my book, and now I need to re-edit the whole manuscript to eliminate the errors that I undoubtedly introduced. I've hauled this massive pile of paper everywhere, but I'm only on chapter three. I have a tendency to overestimate my ability to focus on editing, so I carry it around, but do very little. Shame. I'm also supposed to be writing a query letter and an appendix. Boogers.

If I would stop inventing busyness, I wouldn't be busy... But I'd be awfully bored.

Busy conundrum!