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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote2011-11-17 08:55 pm

I am made of win!

Wrote my Statement of Purpose today. Hooray! This means I may actually finish my grad school applications.

(I wasn't seriously worried that I wouldn't. But it was getting to be a near thing.)

I'm definitely applying to Yale and IU, because they have the best programs for American history between 1880 and 1920, with a focus on women's history, and women artists, and literature and imagination and fairyland and the Uplifting Power of Nature (tm) and, well, everything. I am so in love with this whole time period that I want to know EVERYTHING ABOUT IT EVER.

Probably there will be a third application - I've narrowed it down to three possibles - but I'm not thinking about it until I get the big two done.

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As a side project, I've been reading/rereading the American Girl books. I'm starting with the new Rebecca series. It's set in 1914! It's about a Jewish girl! From Russia! Who loves movies! She even reads Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, oh my God oh my God oh my God! (I should write a post about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.) It's like they designed this series for me!

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Also, holy smokes, I write a lot of posts about books. Maybe I should diversify a bit.

[identity profile] bookaddict88.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
You can never have too many posts about books!

Good luck with grad school!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed: never too many posts about books!

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
This is true. The world needs more book posts!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay grad school applications (well, the application process isn't very yay-ful, but yay for chomping through it), and fingers crossed for both!

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm hopeful!

[identity profile] bogwitch64.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)

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Grad school...sigh. Good luck with your aps!

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I have my fingers crossed!

[identity profile] exuberantself.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You are made of win. This a fact.

Why would you write less about books? Book are also made of win. Although I could stand more of your cookie/scone recipes. ;)

Is it possible that you secretly are an American Girl doll? I mean, you are tiny and adorable.

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2011-11-18 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I did once consider writing a fictionalized version of my life as an American Girl of the 1990s story.

Oh my god, and I even have the long American Girl hair.

YOU MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING.

[identity profile] entwashian.livejournal.com 2011-11-21 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh!!!! My friend finally posted her notes on her (sadly now abandonded) American Girl re-read project!

http://mizzmarvel.livejournal.com/847114.html

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2011-11-21 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I've popped over there and left a comment! And friended her, 'cause she seems cool.