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pins and needles

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I’m sure you are all dying to here where I’m going to school next year. It’s like the series finale of some great show, right? Ha ha ha. So, I don’t really think you care that much, but D-day is tomorrow and I fully intend to have decided by then.

In the meantime, let me just say the following:

  1. I LOVE Nashville!
  2. Drunk people are hilarious.
  3. Vanderbilt has an amazing program. Seriously.
  4. I am pretty much terrified of b-school. This is going to be an intense course in “things that Chloe is not good at”, because that’s the point.
  5. I totally have “senioritis” when it comes to work…but I have so much to do, it’s not really possible to let that affect my actions.
  6. Old money is fun.
  7. The South is very different from the West.
  8. I have some serious materialism issues.
  9. I hate decisions when it’s a difference between what I want most and what I want now. This is true of picking a school and of dieting, among other things.
  10. Southern bbq is totally different than what I know as bbq…and much better.
  11. I really do miss the diversity of living outside of P-town. Really. A lot.
  12. Either decision is going to leave me questioning. I really hoped that it would become totally clear. And maybe it hasn’t because I have not made a choice yet. In any case, I’m going to be happy and sad either way.

It was a fantastic weekend, which is only making my decision that much more difficult. However, in the end, even when more information complicates decisions, I think having as much information as possible is always the way to go.

Stay tuned. Tomorrow will be the day, as I refuse to give Vanderbilt $1000 deposit if I’m not sure I’m going there and said deposit has to be postmarked April 15.

and she’s off

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I head to Nashville tomorrow for V’s Welcome Weekend. After that, it’s D-day. I have to let V know by April 15th. I think I’ve made up my mind…and it’s probably not going to be V, but I have to go out there one more time, just to be sure.

Well, and to see these people. They are the best! Seriously. I had so much fun with them in January, I couldn’t pass up another opportunity to head out there.

It’s sure to be a rough weekend filled with lots of emotion, because at one point I was dead set on going to V. But life happens, circumstances change, new information becomes available, and decisions evolve. Isn’t it lovely?

As I won’t be posting anything until Monday (I have pretty strict rules about blogging while on trips…I don’t do it), I have left you with some fun downloads. They are on the sidebar (so you’ll actually have to visit the blog).

Stay tuned for Decision ’08 (well, the one that really matters to me at this moment), when all shall be revealed. Well, most. I have to leave something for the tabloids when I become rich and famous. Ha ha ha.

decide

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decide Look up decide at Dictionary.com
c.1380, from O.Fr. decider, from L. decidere “to decide,” lit. “to cut off,” from de- “off” + cædere “to cut” (see cement). Sense is of resolving difficulties “at a stroke.” Originally “to settle a dispute;” meaning “to make up one’s mind” is attested from 1830. Decided in the adj. sense of “resolute” is from 1790.

I think it’s interesting that one of the Latin roots of the word decide is the same root as part of homicide and suicide; cædere “to cut”.

That’s how I’m feeling about my choices for grad school. It has come down to the university where I currently work (and where I did my undergrad) and a beautiful school in Nashville, TN. I thought I had made my decision. I had prayed about it and really felt the decision was up to me, so I thought I made it. I was set. I was moving to Nashville.

But something happened yesterday, and now everything is up in the air. It wasn’t anything major. I just got an email from someone currently in the program here, and the email made me think.

So, now I’m at a 50/50 split. I really don’t know what I’m going to do. Really. I still feel like, in terms of spiritual things, God is putting the decision completely in my hands (yes, I do pray about things occasionally). I know what I thought I wanted to do, but sometimes, when I think I know what I want to do, I fail to compare the way I should. Let the comparing begin.

when it rains…in a good way

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So, I just wanted to share how blessed I feel. Yesterday, as I shared, I got accepted to an MBA program in Nashville, which in and of itself made the day great.

Then, I had a voicemail from the admissions counselor with whom I interviewed. She said there were some things she needed to discuss with me that weren’t in the letter. I called her back immediately because I was pretty dang excited. It turns out not only did I get accepted, they have offered me a great scholarship.

And at 7:06 pm, the newest member of my family was born, happy and healthy. I’m not going to say more on that right now because the parents have yet to post about their newest addition and I don’t want to steal their thunder. But look for some cute pictures to come!

These are the times when all of the crappy, hard things I’ve gone through in my life seem so minor compared to how blessed I am. I seriously don’t feel like I deserve so much (not that the baby is my blessing, per se)…but I’m going to take it.