2003-04-03 ± 4:08 p.m.
I am speckled...aren't you jealous?

so much so much.

My phone has been out for nearly a month, so my web access has been restricted to work...and my crappy compaq surrounded by teenagers who are understanding more English every day (thank you very much *patting my back*) is not exactly my favorite place to update from.

Lucky for you readers I got a crazy rash all over my chest and stomach which forced me to miss work to go to the doctor, thereby making me available to receive the phone repairman between the hours of 8&5.

The crazy rash that started with little speckles on my chest and over a week's time blossomed into an embarassing body covering arrangement of welt-like red marks has turned out to be Pityriasis Rosea (not rosacea). If I had web skills I'd include a link to this site http://www.aad.org/pamphlets/pityrias.html

It's some mysterious possibly viral infection that comes from no where (it's not contagious), stays for 4-8 weeks and then goes away. I just want it to go away. I had to go to the store and by t-shirts with the smallest neck openings available (too hot in Tejas for turtlenecks) so as to hide the marks on my chest. yuck yuck yuck.

In other news; I was accepted to Northeastern's Law School in Boston...it's my last choice but I was waitlisted at Boston University (chant, light a candle, cross a finger or two) and I've yet to hear from Boston College or Harvard (I think we all know what Harvard'll have to say...I don't want to go to their overhyped underlandscapted old school anyway...unless for some mysterious reason they want me, in which case I will eat my hat and jump on the red line straight to Cambridge). Northeastern on paper sounds pretty good. They have a public interest co-op program and since public interest is what I want to do, it sounds ideal. On the other hand they're a very "progressive" school. I hate to be becoming a little closer to center in my old age, but they don't give grades, just evaluations and I wonder how that'll effect my competitive-ness in the job market. Also, the girl I spoke with on the phone was nice, but I don't know if I believed her that my "mind would be blown" by how smart the people sitting in class next to me would be. I can be a little elitist I guess, but I want to be someplace with people as intelligent or preferably more intelligent than myself (read BC or BU), not really someplace where I will be the smart kid (according to admittedly faulty statistics that would be my fate at Northeastern).

Oh well, I will make the best...it does feel good to know I have been accepted somewhere...but if I don't hear from BC before next week I'll have to send a non-refundable $500 to Northeastern which will suck if I end up going somplace else.

Denis was here for two blissful weeks of dinners and trival pursuit matches and drinking wine and reading books in bed. I'm going to Cleveland over the Easter weekend...and my parents will be driving from Detroit to meet Denis' parents and have dinner with us. Most people would be nervous, but I think it'll be great. I can't wait to see our father's meet...there will be enough comic material to produce a sitcom.

I had my Bosnian student teach me funny things to say to Denis in Serbo-Croatian...Ti si glup (you are stupid)

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