i have just received my first graduate school rejection. from the school that, by any objective measure, should have been the first to beg me to come. but i suppose that my application essay's barely-concealed rejection of that department's dominant methodology didn't do much for my chances.

well, y'know what? i didn't want to live in SAN DIEGO ANYWAY YOU BIG STUPID REPUBLICAN DOMINATED SEASONLESS WASTELAND, YOU.

i shall greatly enjoy my recruitment trips to ANN ARBOR and BERKELEY and NEW HAVEN. so there.