Yeah, I totally bought the Makeover shirt. I paid US$4.23 to have it shipped from a company whose mailing address is like four blocks away. My house may actually be closer than the nearest post office. Ah well, at least I’ll get it really fast.

It’s my reward for mailing out my first complete masters application, which I have done today.

What if I forgot something? Oh my. I know I didn’t because I went through the checklist really carefully, but man, that doesn’t make it not the first thing I thought when I handed it to the post office lady. At least now I know what I’m doing for when I do the other schools, which are far more likely to fund me.

Now it is officially time to turn my thoughts to Christmas. Cookies! Cleaning my apartment! Buying presents!

My mom and Alex both keep asking what I want this year and I really can’t come up with much. Seriously, it’s 90% kitchen stuff, which my mom can’t realistically give me because I would just have to carry it back to Toronto (stock pots don’t travel well). Alex keeps talking about buying me a madeleine tin, which I’ve dismissed as silly because I would so seldom use it, but how awesome would it be to be able to make my own madeleines?