It's my blog, so I can totally talk about how great I am...

[charloween]

Two awesome pieces of mail today:

1. I-Man season one DVDs. Hell yeah! Screw you, VHS rips. The quality isn't tops, and they totally cheaped out on the packaging, but hey: I'm digging it. Bring on s2!

2. A letter from the grad faculty at York, letting me know that they've sent my name as an alternate for the SSHRC CGS grant (we're talking $17,500). This means I'll only get it if someone else who's been offered it decides not to take it, but it's better than being rejected outright. (I'm looking at you, Commonwealth Scholarship and Mackenzie King awards.) It's also not tenable outside of Canada, which means it's no use to me if I want to Glasgow. Still. It's better than being rejected outright.

I call it a win.

An awesome email today, too: I get to sit on a committee that decides who the school is going to nominate for a prestigious national undergraduate scholarship for second-years. The irony is totally not lost on me. I keep applying to stuff and get denied, and now I get to be one of the people doing the selecting. If nothing else, I'll get a better idea of how to write a winning scholarship app.

Comments

[shady-lane.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Now, who do you know is going into second year of film? I surely can't think of anyone.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Touche. Also, hee.

If I get your application (have you applied to the Millennium In-Course Awards?) I'll have to declare a conflict of interest, you know that. :P

Still, have you applied for that yet?

[shady-lane.livejournal.com]

I haven't applied for any scholarships ever. It'd probably help if my marks were higher.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

You could talk about your volunteering, your community involvement, your charitable acts and work with the poor, all the committees you sit on...

[shady-lane.livejournal.com]

I volunteered once upon a time, but it wasn't for a cause that benefited for the greater good. Besides, I thought they only gave out to people who needed it?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Nah, there are a bunch of different ways to get free money. Grades, volunteering, being poor or any combination thereof. I'm all three, which is fun. Except for grad awards are more marks-based and they don't care if you're poor. Grr.

But you should totally apply for stuff. Free money is awesome.

[shady-lane.livejournal.com]

I will have a look-see tomorrow.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hoorah!

And I looked to the west, and there stood a tyrant-king...

[alfadir.livejournal.com]

You are looking at this all wrong.

Using an unholy combination of: public records of who works for the grants you've been rejected by, facebook profiles of students applying to grants, and a little connect-the-dots intelligence... you can vengefully shoot down the relations of those who have wronged you.

See, you can't use your powers for -personal improvement-... only evil.

What a beautiful day/ I'm the King of All Time/ And nothing is impossible/ In my all-powerful mind

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Evil sounds like it's a lot of work. Hard work. *pouts*

For macho street cred, I have to insist it's not because of the pouting.

[alfadir.livejournal.com]

Evil is easy, as long as you delegate and network. I'm rather good at helping people achieve their true potential in evil, for modest fees of dignity and innocence.

Right! So we are supposed to have pizza. What if we were to have... a party? I want to have one on the 18th, before Passover, in keeping with our (my?) tradition of Jewish holiday drinking parties. Gotta get rid of all that leavened... beer... y'know.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Alas... I excel at the planning rather than the doing. Moriarty FTW.

Pizza party on the 18th seems to fit with my stuff-getting-due schedule. I approve.

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

WHOO! Yay for getting money that someone doesn't want. I scored a scholarship for university that way one time (but it was only $500, which is nothing compared to $17,500).

Oh I-Man. *happy sigh*

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Suh-weet! It's a nice maybe to garnish a pile of NOs.

I will show you the DVD quality. I'm still boggling about how wonderful the picture looks. Seriously geeking about it, over here.

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

For some odd reason I keep on imagining an evil char with little horns..red background lighting....fire everywhere, wielding a massive 20 lbs rejection rubber stamper....

"BUAHHAHAAHHA take that!" REJECTION!!!! **BAM

Somewhere in the distant a film major snifles back some tears.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

You've such a forgiving picture of me!

And the best part is, it's not just film students. It's everyone.

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

Hmmm or else the fluffy image.....large columms of applicant...happy **giggling char stapping away....bliss fully.

Wow..too much power in one person....and in the rubber stamp. So is it going to be every other person?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I don't know.... I'll be getting the files at the end of May, and get to go through them all before the committee meeting.

Even if I don't get a stamp, I'll make the stamp motions. :D