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Essay Writing

As far, my PS is nearly finished.
My diversity essay is almost done.
"Why Penn" essay editing seems to come close to the end.
And there is still "Why Michigan"......

"Essay, heihei, crap." This former law school student said.

Agreed. more than crap.

Appilcation 3

I didn't expect the complicated family relationship got into the way a couple of weeks before I am sending off my application to law school.
Why didn't they make the fuss when I first told them I am going to law school.
What the hell.

Application 2

I called the two teachers who wrote LOR for me. So my LOR is half set. Still thinking if i should obtain a third recommendation letter...

School research has covered all the 7 schools among the top 14 that I am going to apply to. Have good feelings toward each of them. Once the research went on to the rest of my choices tonight, the feeling started to change. It is me, or the schools?

For the rest of this week, I am going to assemble the parts of my P.S. into a whole piece. uhm, I should have done this weeks earlier. It is the only tough part that makes me procrastinate.

Application1

Six of the schools I am looking to apply to require Dean's certification (Cornell, columbia, Duke, BU and Penn). Quite relieved to find out that Penn and BU might waive and the other three would accept Chinese certification, as long as a notarized translation accompaning it. All right, almost get the sh*t out of the way.

没想到在美国跨州搬家一次如此耗油耗电。
A list of things we’ve done in the past three weeks:
1. Sign the lease for the new apartment;
2. Changed our address with the post office, our credit card company and a whole bunch of other places which has a scintilla chance of sending us a mail or a bill;
3. Transfer the car’s title;
4. Transfer our driver license;
5. Open a new account with a local bank and closed an old one;
6. Fix a chronical problem our car has and do the annual inspection required by this state;
7. Transfer the auto insurance;
8. Buy a new health insurance;
9. Buy new cooking pan, kitchen knife, bowls and plates, chopsticks and forks, sugar and salt……
(to be continued)

We’ve written off a bunch of checks and are expecting a bill storming.

Life Back on Track

I finally get the messy summer in order and have my life back on track.

The new old apartment finally look like a home with old bookshelf collected from neighborhood roadside and inexpensive and practical computer desk picked up from Office Depot.

I didn’t feel back on track until Icecube set up the internet this morning and I became able to sit before my laptop and continued with my jabbering here.

南方人的热情

要离开这里了，再次感受到美国南方人的热情和友好。
早上去修车，修车的师傅帮我们看完之后，指出了一个主要问题，还花了10多分钟给我们讲解，教我们怎样自己换配件，最后还不收钱，他说， 我知道你们都是学生，检车就免费了。
后来我们在家门口换火花塞，旧的塞子拔了半天出不来，一个老外就过来了，帮我们拔，未果， 又匆匆从他家里给我们找来工具，帮我们解决了问题。前后足足花了他30分钟。
后来我们去auto zone去买了一样配件，自己在店门口换，一个老头就过来，主动给我们帮忙。

昨天晚上和几个朋友在一起聊天，还在讨论这个南方小镇的好处，现在越发让人觉得这个地方可爱了。

Trip Planning

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be on our way, so we are going to spend two days there and another day driving to Icecube's new school. I did some research today and it seems to be a fun place.

打包，搬家

不收拾不知道，东西还真不少

周日

从国内来了一个新学生，需要临时在我们这里住几天，于是家里更是熙熙攘攘了. 新生是个斯文的贵州人，来的时候带着杯子带者勺, 带了洗发水和香皂，跟我当初来美国一样。问他带了什么贵州土产，他说他带了一瓶老干妈.

周六

周六:
上午去一个农场摘蓝霉, 边吃边摘，饱了之后以市场价三分之一的价格买了三磅回来，家里的三个小伙子很捧场，一天就消灭了。
ICECUBE边大把地往嘴里塞，边鼓着腮帮子说，恩, 真好吃，你下周再去摘点回来.

晚上去一个泰国餐厅吃了一顿. 上次我们请YY 和WW吃了一顿大餐, 他们誓死反请我们, 于是去了一家越南餐厅，一人点了一个河粉，吃的都很高兴，但YY和WW坚持说这顿太便宜，一定要再请一顿----其实也是因为他们周末不愿意做饭.
餐毕又去老地主家里打开牌局,一直奋战到半夜. 地主婆挺这个大肚子，眼皮都不眨地陪我们玩到最后.

开了几天天窗，今天补起来

周五:
晚上去KIM家了，这对韩国夫妇已经多次邀请我们去他门家里蹭饭吃.他们是一对虔诚的的基督徒, 在学校里开了一个BIBLE STUDY小组，每周五晚上学习, 专门邀请国际学生参加, 同时邀请一些美国教授作为"诱饵"。他们已经坚持了6年了，我很被他们的执著精神感动, 所以踊跃参加了一个学期，韩国夫妇对我对这个活动的"支持"感到很高兴，同时也感觉我很有"发展前途", 所以我们也就成了朋友.
周六去他们家是因为老地主跟他们借了一盘关于INTELLIGENCE DESIGN的录象带，所以kIM夫妇邀请我们去讨论讨论，结果老地主看完了一个录象带就被这种理论收买了， 害得我跟他争论了一通, 把老底也暴露了.

Blueberry Picking

今天早上去摘蓝梅，好吃又好玩

歌唱

弯弯的月亮

歌手:刘欢 专辑:刘欢精选辑

遥远的夜空
有一个弯弯的月亮
弯弯的月亮下面
是那弯弯的小桥
小桥的旁边有一条弯弯的小船
弯弯的小船悠悠
是那童年的阿娇
呜——
阿娇摇着船
唱着那古老的歌谣
歌声随风飘飘到我的脸上
脸上淌着泪象那条弯弯的河水
呜——弯弯的河水啊流进我的心上
呜——我的心充满惆怅
不为那弯弯的月亮
只为那今天的村庄
还唱着过去的歌谣
故乡的月亮
你那弯弯的忧伤穿透了我的胸膛呜——

----Silent-singer：今天闲极了，把这首歌来回唱了几遍，用voice yepp录下来，算是我今天的audio journal。

今天早上看到一个关于北大在近三个月发生三起学生自杀事件的报道。

4月22日下午4时，北大理科2号楼，一女子9楼坠亡。
　　5月7日晚9时10分左右，北大理科2号楼，02级数学系一博士生9楼坠亡。
　　7月25日晚8时，北大33号宿舍楼，一男生从5楼宿舍的阳台坠楼身亡。据称该男生为北大心理学系本科生。

然后是评论，专家说法
　　北大教授夏学銮就学生频繁坠楼事件接受记者采访， 一个人活着应该有家庭责任和社会责任感，选择自杀，这种行为是自私的。如果一个人连自己的生命都不珍惜，他就是不负责任。”

看完这段所谓的专家评论之后，我为死者更加感到悲哀。在一个人极度痛苦，无法自拔，最后选择结束自己的生命之后，却有所谓的专家在这里大谈特谈什么“责任”和“自私”。也许他们选择死是在感觉周围无人理解他们的痛苦，极度无助和绝望之后的无奈选择。

可惜的是，他们的死并没有让生者思考一下，我们这些活着的人是不是也对他们的死负有几分责任。