Meta-life

I really ought to write a long post about how we were locked out of our own computer for three days last week, and that's why I haven't posted in so long. I ought to talk about the knitting I've been doing, both my successes (I made a scarf for Lydia from a pattern given to me by Sarah, and I've finished one slipper from the same book) and failures (I spent an entire day last week working on baby booties that in the end only existed as a small, sad pile of unraveled wool). I ought to talk about Lydia, who will be two in less than two weeks, and whose vocabulary grows every day, loves to help cook, especially things with flour in them, almost as she loves to help clean; not pick up, clean. As in she'll take any old spray can, in this case our spray cooking oil, and take it around the house with some fabric piece of something, and then proceed to "spray" (thankfully she's not strong enough to actually depress the nozzle), and wipe the whole house down, including myself or Avram, if we are in her path.

Instead I'm just going to briefly talk about applications. Because as great as all of the previous posts would be, I'm not obsessed with them as much as I am with my future. Now, I have no more news than I did at my last posting. I can't tell if this means that both schools that accepted Avram don't want to fund him at all, or if they simply haven't decided yet. For that matter, we haven't actually received an official letter from either school, with official information, offer, etc.

For Wisc we received an email from the department merely saying he was in, and then a follow up physical letter with said letter printed out, along with four pages of outside reading to be done in the next four years (along with four books to read this summer). Including in this reading, they want you to have preferably read the entire Old Testament in Hebrew to get your Doctorate. Now, this is quite a task, but I like it. It makes me feel like the department is rigorous, and I like rigor. Especially since it will be Avram doing the reading. But nada on funding.

For Ohio state we haven't even that; all that's happened is his status on the website has changed to tell him that he's been admitted, and will receive a letter in the mail. That's it. If we weren't such diligent checkers, we wouldn't even know.

So what does this all mean? We found out for both schools early in the admittance process, which would argue good things for Avram's chances of funding, but then not mentioning anything, that doesn't argue such good things. Or do they just not know themselves, yet? Argh, these are all very pointless wonderings, but I keep on going over these questions in my head. So now all my dear readers are as un-enlightened as we are.