We had a few inches of cold, white, crystalline stuff fall yesterday in Greenville. Yes, I’m referring to snow. It’s nice. Cors loves it and jumps around like a bunny. It’s pretty funny. I realised that Greenville is terrible about clearing the roads in town–not to mention Facilities staff clearing outside our office. So I ended up pulling on my snowboard boots to walk to work today. That was a workout for sure.

I always feel like it’s not worth it to buy regular snowboots when we only get one good snowfall a year here. If we end up moving to Syracuse then I’m sure I’ll break down and buy some real boots.

I’m anxiously waiting for 05 Feb. so that I can update my TaxCut software and finish my taxes for the year. Looks like we’ll have a good refund, but maybe better if some of these tax cuts go through. We’ll see what happens.

I found out that my grad school app will *most likely* be reviewed around 01 Feb., which is next week! So I’m hoping I will hear back soon about whether or not I’m in. My cousin Josh teaches Political-Science at SUNY in Buffalo, which is awesome. It’ll be cool to have family nearby if we do get to move out to Syracuse. He’s already invited us over for Thanksgiving if we are there.

Jess and I have this feeling of unrest, sort of, I think. We’re ready to move on.

In other news, I finished Jessica’s new blog template last week and I am pretty happy with it. Her Etsy store is doing pretty well and she’s getting some new items up. It’s pretty cool. You should check both of them out.

Tomorrow morning is the morning. I actually feel really confident. I went over a few GRE details earlier today and then took (almost) the rest of the day off, just like Kaplan told me to. But I did review a bunch of math stuff and read the notes on how to do the essay section. It shouldn’t be too bad.

So. I feel good.

We went over to V. Ross’s house tonight for dessert with the incoming transfer and freshman Communication majors. It was pretty fun actually. I talked to Cary about the program at Syracuse and he was really excited about it. I think V. is glad I’m applying to the program too. And I get more and more excited about it every day. It will be so awesome.

Anyway. I added something to this blog today. Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see it.

This is my last weekend of being ridiculously stressed out. I am taking the GRE on Monday morning. Early. It’s the second time I’ve taken the test. The first time around I didn’t do so well… maybe okay for the program I’m applying to, but not good enough for myself.

My plans are to study all day today (after studying all week already) and as much of tomorrow as possible. Then Monday I’ll wake up really early, drive to SLU and take the test. I’m actually feeling more confident than I felt at the beginning of the week – which is a good thing.

I will feel an incredible sense of release when it’s over. I won’t have to do study anymore. Next week I’ll finish up my application and get it submitted. Early. I really need to get into this program.

And now that this new design is up, I probably need to finish the Résumé page, fix my letterhead for résumés and cover letters and my CV, and then nip and tuck the rest of the blog template issues.

I’d appreciate any comments (or bug reports) on the new design. Let me know what you think! I’m pretty sure I’ll be submitting it (minus the moving cloud – probably) to themes.wordpress.org in the near future. That, along with the Rock Out Loud (AgapeFest 2009) template – which should be going live on agapefest.com next week (fingers crossed).

that GRE prep is kicking my butt. I wish I had kept myself in practice for the Quantitative (read: math) parts of the test. Hopefully I can get some strategies out of all this.

If you pray, please add me to the list. I need a good GRE score because I need to go to grad school next summer, because I need to get out of Greenville.

Thank you.