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I'm still rocking a big ugly Shiner from the meia lua de compasso I caught in the face at last Saturday's batizado. It doesn't hurt, but it's damn ugly. That being the case, I'm refusing to get my student ID photo taken until it heals because I refuse to be saddled for the next two years with an ID picture in which I am mutilated. The problem is that I need my ID to get into any building on campus. So far, the security guards that I've explained the situation to have been sympathetic and let me go to class. Today, however, I schlepped my butt all the way up to Harlem on a Saturday morning for a writing workshop only to find that in order to get into the building, I needed to swipe my ID. You know, the one I don't have. Grr.

The day wasn't a total waste, though; I finally got into H&M to return a bunch of shirts and now have a $40 credit to put towards a much-needed wardrobe update. So, yay. And I don't have to be at school again until Tuesday, by which point we can only hope that this stupid black eye will have faded enough to at least be coverable with makeup.

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TheGoodest on September 5, 2009 from New York, United States

from the travel blog: Grad School in New York

tagged NewYork, Brooklyn, GradSchool and Capoeira

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I've been reading articles on the Field of Education in Emergencies and the positive and negative impacts of education on ethnic conflict and post-conflict development for the last seven hours. And I'm not even a quarter of the way through my first batch of reading for one of my classes. What's more, the more reading I do, the more stuff I need to research and look up to follow it. I'm even pulling out the dictionary to look up vocabulary words. The hell! It's seriously intimidating and overwhelming and I'm finding myself back in the I'm-not-ready-for-this and how-in-the-world-did-I-even-get-into-this-school place. I'm a little terrified.

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Holy Moly, this is a lot of reading!

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Heading South?