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[proximoception]

Had a jumpy pre-Break period, as a number of documents needed for admission kept somehow not arriving. One turned out to be in my file, actually several copies of it were as I'd been sending them at weekly intervals since January, but no one ever alerted the database that they were in there! Worse, my backup referrer apparently has cancer, and one of the forms that prevents you from responding to emails. Worse still, one of my main referrers went incommunicado for weeks--recovering from surgery. He was good early on, faxed several times, but they "were having trouble with their fax machine" that week--also the next week; and he did come through at last, couriering his letter in exactly as deliberation began.

So then during Break the acceptance letter arrived and I saw that stipend figure. These people cannot be serious. Bad enough you have to buy an undergrad degree in this country--do we really want graduate degrees to be wealth-based?

All very sanity-affecting.

Comments

[agoraphiliac.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, and sorry.

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[paris-hat.livejournal.com]

That's happened to me quite a few times, with the referees--including, most recently, quite the reverse but frustrating: a well-intentioned referee faxed in a letter, then called and called to see if it was there while everyone was out and proceeded to fax it some more. To the point where I had to negotiate between her and the recipient and prayed that the whole thing wasn't going to affect me.

Congrats on the acceptance though!

In grad school I ate so many meals centered on beans that I can't look at them anymore.

Hey--do you know any good readings of The Triumph of Life? Bloom and de Man are the only ones I know. I have to teach it soon.