Sylvia
24 years old
Gainesville, FL
Female
About
I am girl. I spend almost all my time on the internet. My favorite food is tacos. My favorite color is probably blue.
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Sep 24, 2008
This isn't school-related:
Well it is. I am planning (hoping) to visit one of the schools I am applying to. One of the most prestigious ones. I was imagining what they would ask me during my interview. And books came up because my life would be perfect if people interviewing me would just talk …
Sep 21, 2008
Big Time Update
I changed my final recommender. I ran into someone from my last job and I asked him and he was very willing to write a letter for me. Only one school requests two academic and one professional and it is the one I am most likely to get in to. I might ask for one from …
Aug 28, 2008
Moving Forward
Sent an email to a professor at #5.
Next week I am going to try to schedule a meeting with my potential final recommender. I hope all goes well, but who knows if he'll even really remember me.
I have like seven drafts of my statement of purpose. They all say basically …
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Movies
Amélie, Big Red One, Citizen Kane, Down by Law, Everything Is Illuminated, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Gosford Park, Heaven Can Wait, Igby Goes Down, Jackie Brown, Kicking and Screaming, Life Aquatic, Metropolitan, Naked Lunch, Oldboy, Pickpocket, Royal Tenenbaums, Station Agent, Trainspotting, Videodrome, Wages of Fear
Music
Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Do Make Say Think, Elvis Costello, Feist, Gogol Bordello, Half-handed Cloud, I'm From Barcelona, Johnny Cash, Kid Koala, Loudon Wainwright III, The Magic Numbers, New Pornographers, Okkervil River, The Pillows, Q-Tip, Rilo Kiley, Sufjan Stevens, Tom Waits, Unicorns, Velvet Underground, Wilco, Yo La Tengo
Television
Arrested Development, Batman: The Animated Series, Cowboy Bebop, Dead Like Me, Entourage, FLCL, Gilmore Girls, Homicide: Life on the Street, Jeeves & Wooster, King of the Hill, Lupin the 3rd, Mr. Show, The Office, Paranoia Agent, QI, Robot Chicken, Stella, Undeclared, Venture Bros, The Wire
Books
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Everything Bad is Good for You by Stephen Johnson, Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner, Good-bye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson, How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen, I Like You by Amy Sedaris, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth by Chris Ware, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, Naked by David Sedaris, 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman, Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Ulysses by James Joyce, Wigfield by Amy Sedaris, You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Activities
Work, making neat alphabetical lists of things, being generally really obsessive, writing, reading, watching things, trying not to be ordinary, looking for the perfect mix between pretentious and pop.
Interests
Books, music, movies, social networking sites, pretty girls, indie boys, San Francisco
Black_Michael, Sep 4, 2007:
Came through. hope you're having a great week!
-Mike
sarcastic, Aug 30, 2007:
thanks for your support! ~sarcastic
IG - Ivana Gatti / Gianni Maroccolo, Aug 13, 2007:
hello Sylvia, thanks for the add
Black_Michael, Jul 9, 2007:
How are you? always enjoy your blogs.
-Mike
KuraFire, Jun 25, 2007:
'Sup? ;)
KuraFire, Jun 22, 2007:
*GLOMP!*