YThe Most Exciting Moment Of the Day
So I'm at Commonapp.org and I'm in the midst of checking every single itty bitty detail before I submit my application for the Emory Scholars Program (Deadline: 1 Nov). So far everything's in order, I've got all my essays copied and pasted, and all the millions of little checkboxes checked (Yes, my parents are married, I stay with both, I need financial aid, I'm not on early decision...) and then I got to the Supplements tab to check if my supplements to Emory are all right.
Herein lies the shock. So there are two supplements from Emory, one the main supplement, where I have to tell them why Emory's a good match for me and ladidah, and then there's another I barely looked at, downloaded once and saw that I couldn't fill it up online and stored that information neatly at the back of my mind till the day I may use it.
That day came, today, a week late. It's the Emory application signature page, which is basically just the confirmation that my application's fine and dandy and stuff. I thought I could submit it online but I can't and the deadline's November 1 and when the realisation dawns on me that I've got to deal with last minute stuff again my head starts throbbing really badly. My parents are overseas so I can't run to them for help so I get the next best thing. "JON!!!" Even though I know he can't do anything, I just need something to calm me down.
So he comes out of his room grumbling, and I explain everything to him in one frantic, shrill breath. He clicks on the screen, looks calmly at it and goes, "Send it over to Mum and get her to post it from the US."
"How about my signature?"
"You can scan it in and email it over."
I feel like hugging him. The throbbing subsides.
I call up Mum in the US. It's 5 am but Mum can sleep anywhere, anytime, so it doesn't matter so much. She's sleepy and I explain everything to her slowly, but I think she can sense the panic in my voice. To her credit she doesn't yell (probably because she's too sleepy) and tells me Fedexing it will be faster, never mind the cost. So I call up Auntie Eugie and get the sheet of paper down to the office tomorrow. $30 for a sheet of paper! The pennycounter in me is indignant but it'll be worth it if I get the scholarship.
Yay for parents and little brothers who can calm me down. :)
Exciting Moment of the Day II happened just a little while ago when Jon's facial cleanser's cap got stuck in the hole where the cleanser comes out from. It was soo funny. I whipped out my trusty, all purpose MGS badge but it didn't help and Jon was so annoyed--"How did the thing get stuck in the bottleneck?"..."How the HELL would I know???". In the end we snipped the tip off so he could get the cleanser out and left the bottle on the shelf with a little cup over the exposed end, looking like a little sad man.
jac was here with you
10/30/2006 09:38:00 pm