1. people who call me TWENTY-ONE DAYS after the application deadline to ask me if they can still apply.

Answer: Yes, of course you can. We won't read it, but knock yourself out.

1a. student who has not been accepted, knowing that notifications go out on March 1 calls and asks me if it's okay if she starts calling professors' labs to see if they'll take her.

Answer: Yes, of course you can. You'll annoy them and they'll hate you for it.

2. BFF's husband waits until the last second to do anything for her birthday, then tries to get me "involved" in the planning (i.e will you email everybody).

Answer: Of course you will! You'll email everyone, including your BFF, that he waited until the last minute and then made you do all the work.

Thanks for the welcomes! I just realized I spent two hours tweaking a profile for my new myspace page. As a media scholar I figured I should learn how to use the thing. Making a page is addictive and now I have twenty minutes to get dressed and get on a bus. And I got no grading done. Bleh.

Hey, back to the framing question: so people have been happy with the framing job Michael's does? Because thanks to the Great House Reorg, we have wall space. And are even contemplating putting up art. Since, y'know, there's an awful lot of it sitting on shelves up in Pete's studio.

IO only important to me (and a few others) N: I am refreshing the MCR ticket presale page like a crazy woman. 4 minutes until tickets go on sale, iieeee!

Let's say I have some nice art prints I want to get framed in a nice way, but I don't want to spend a fortune. What are my options?

I do my own framing, because having other people do it seems dreadfully expensive. I find a nice frame in a standard size that's 2 or so inches wider on all sides than the print. Then I go to a framing store and have them cut an acid-free mat to fit, plus an acid-free cardboard backing. Michael's can have some good frames cheap, in one of its never-ending sales, plus there's the 40% off coupon in the Sunday paper. Ikea has good prices on frames, as do a lot of scary giant housewares and garden stores like Garden Ridge.

Hey, back to the framing question: so people have been happy with the framing job Michael's does? Because thanks to the Great House Reorg, we have wall space. And are even contemplating putting up art. Since, y'know, there's an awful lot of it sitting on shelves up in Pete's studio.

The work I've seen is very nice. I've had a few things done there as has my brother and parents. And they have a very wide selection of frames and mattes.

I am refreshing the MCR ticket presale page like a crazy woman. 4 minutes until tickets go on sale, iieeee!

My show hit 2 minutes before the hour. I'm just saying.

t does the secret dance of presale ticket joy

The work is fine at Michael's, although several around here always finish your piece a couple of weeks after they said they would. It's worth getting some estimates at local frame shops, because sometimes the Michael's half-off is still higher. Even if you want someone else to frame something, you save a lot of money with standard-sized frames.

Woo hoo -- a friend just offered me a ticket to see Patrick Stewart in MacBeth!! Of course, it's the same night as the opening festivities of the crossword puzzle tournament, which I've already paid for, but whatever.

My show hit 2 minutes before the hour. I'm just saying.

So did mine!

t joins the secret dance of presale ticket joy, with added flaily hands

It's worth getting some estimates at local frame shops, because sometimes the Michael's half-off is still higher. Even if you want someone else to frame something, you save a lot of money with standard-sized frames.

Good to know.

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t edit Although I tend to agree with Allan Siegel that a colon would have been more elegant in place of the semi.