What? I have a blog?

I guess I should bring you up to date.

I’ve been suffering from consumption or something (a.k.a. a sore throat), which has really put a damper on my new determination to get into grad school. I went to see an old prof this week to get some advice, and he told me that the smart money’s on applying to three Canadian schools and three American. The Canadian ones are most likely going to be UBC, York and Concordia. Carleton’s a not-unappealing option, but I’ve been informed that it’s full of historians, and no historian I. UBC is an attractive option (and not just because the lovely <a href=http://livejournal.com/users/rachelmack”>Rachel is a potential roommate). However, the whole application process is frightening and disturbing. Three faculty letters of reference? Thesis proposal? I don’t have a project! Sigh.

Meanwhile, I have no idea where to apply stateside.
Don’t worry, this is so not the last you’ll hear of this.

Other than the cold and the stress of my future looming before me, I’m good.

It’s a been a really good month for shows – M.I.A. was not as hot as I had hoped, but since then there has been Ted Leo, the New Pornographers, the Decemberists (which could well have been attended by everyone I know), and the Mountain Goats.

I’m a little bit in love with the Mountain Goats right now. Moreso than usual, even. Everytime I try to talk about them, I’m all like, “there’s this guy, John Darnielle, he writes these songs and he plays acoustic guitar, and the songs are so, like bitter and funny, but still moving, and it’s just him and his bassist,” I somehow manage to make him sound so boring. This is why I’ll never be a music critic.

In conclusion, I give you one word reviews of the last two movies I saw.

1. Where the Truth Lies: amazing.
2. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: mixed.