Serious progress has been made on the grad school front. 4 of the 7 online applications are filled out (waiting to be submitted until I get paid), and I have a separate page in my notebook for each school and all the stuff I have to do for it. Also, I have envelopes stamped and addressed for those awesome 3 professors who think they can manage to come up with a couple nice things about me, with 3 of the 4 necessary recommendation forms already prepared and folded inside (still waiting on Harvard).

Doesn't sound like much when I say it that way, but all that took me the better part of 5 hours. And at least I feel organized now - that is to say, every little random note I had scribbled down somewhere, every phrase I'd glanced at on a school website and then forgotten, all the factoids I'd filed away in my brain and then lost... they're all in one place now, no need to go poring through those sites again.

7 application fees = $485. Ouch.

But: tonight's 2.5 hours of babysitting = $26. Nice, very nice.

Anyway, seeing as I have to get up in three hours... bedtime.