I usually don't care, but...

Red Sox win the World Series, whoot!

Usually I don't give a flying crap, but this was actually a pretty good series. The Rockies had some good plays too, but we got 'em in the last inning.

And apparently now it's a tradition for the Catcher to jump the Pitcher before the obligatory whole-team dogpile. They did that in 2004 too, though I think they were different catchers. I am a bit tired of hearing about "Red Sox Nation" though, since it sounds like something the Marketing department cooked up.

And now hopefully people's sleep schedules will get back to normal, as everyone has been up watching the games. One of the newscasters just commented that in New England we're a bunch of zombies as a result.

*yawn* Well, I think I'll turn in. I'm certainly one of the zombies right now, and it looks like my Dad's in the same boat if how much he's blinking is any indication.

Slow but steady progress...

I've been keeping a checklist of the UNC Scholarship stuff as I finish them, and it's slowly getting closer to 100%. It helps that they relaxed the deadline until mid November so I have a little more breathing room.

I was just playing email tag with an aide from our senator friend Stan's office, as she's going to write a letter "from" him. I actually wrote a tribute to him as a school assignment a few years ago, so I attached that to give her a better idea. Apparently it's fairly common to do that when you're in a position like he is, plus he's out of town. The aide just sent back "THANKS WILL WORK ON IT" (the caps were hers) and I already have Alison's and the GCC English professor's letters in varying stages of completion.

I've also decided to switch around which parts of my as-of-yet-untitled opus to send in and focus more on showing my abilities than telling a complete story, which is impossible anyway since the thing's not even done yet! In the synopsis I'll explain that they're just excerpts from the first part that I feel are the most complete and demonstrative of my writing ability.

I've also decided to spin my application in such a way as to say that my goal is to learn how to better tell these stories through continued study. The last thing I want to do is act like I already know everything (I don't) and as I was compiling the chapters I realized this. So instead I'm going to frame it in the context of "here's what I can do, but I want to do more/be better at it." That's one problem with working on one thing for a long time - you have to keep going to back to make it consistent with the new parts. But hey, as I've said before, a learning experience.