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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Another Upturn

Just got an e-mail from the coolest woman ever (AKA the person in charge of graduate admissions at a certain university). First of all, I'm uber-impressed that she e-mailed me back. I wasn't expecting that...thus I called her last Friday. Secondly, she said that all of my application material had been received. That's right, nice prof man sent in him letter of recommendation. Now all I can do is hope he also sent one to the rest of the universities.

I SO owe the coolest woman ever a lovely fruit basket...or something equally useless.

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