hiding in my room, wasting away.

i keep forgetting to eat at night, when i'm home. i get busy working on application stuff & i forget to make dinner. also there are a ton of dirty dishes in my sink, which is kind of unlike me.

for the curious: the exciting news from yesterday involved emailing professors & getting really encouraging replies, really fast. it seems a bit less monumental today, but yesterday afternoon i was positively thrilled.

i talked to my dad yesterday & he asked my opinion of a current news item i hadn't heard about (it involves women being admitted to this exclusive golf club). despite the fact that i didn't know anything but the details he told me in that moment, i totally argued brilliantly by placing the whole event in a larger political context. i'm not trying to be egotistical here. it's really just about the history i have with my dad, how we are consistently at odds politically, & how i think i have finally refined my analysis to a point that allows me to argue with him & not only be taken seriously, but make him think really hard to respond to my points. it totally rules.

so much snow.