Okay, so I sent in my UCAS application about 16 days ago. Went out to University of Oxford, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham, and University of Birmingham. So we'll see how that goes. I still have a few to make for American and Canadian universities. I've been in contact with Oxford and am feeling somewhat optimistic, but also realisitic, about my prospects on getting in.

UC (University of Cincinnati) has been going well- I'm in Russian, Advanced English Composition, and Ancient History. The run down is this. I'm passing Russian with flying colours. On my exam last week one of the prompts was "Describe yourself in Russian." For which I wrote: "Я хорошая американская студентка.\" (I am a good american student) She wrote along side of it, very enthusiastically might I add, "Да!" Which of course means yes. I got an A+ on my test. Have been getting them on all of my quizzes, and was told that I have excellent Russian-cursive handwriting (which is apparantly saying something.)

English is supremely easy. Somehow I got into the advanced track, and all class we discuss our readings in depth. (i.e. me and about three other kids discuss it while the others sit and just nod in agreement.) Then we have six 250 word essays due throughout the course as well as one culture essay. I usually take a half an hour to do the essays that are 250 words and rarely have anything marked wrong further than some rather minor grammatical errors. Though to be fair I had a rough time on one of the essays that I am in the process of re-writing. However my professor seems to enjoy my writing enough.

Ancient Greek History is my only lecture class. I completely enjoy it! My professor is Dr.Getzel Cohen. He's awesome! He always knows JUST when something needs to repeated, or always knows the exact right time to allow for questions. He is pretty funny as well- and he always has personal or contemporary ancedotes that help back up his points and provide a framework for understanding the context of some of the events he is describing. This history itself is very facinating, and I think I appreciate it more seeing as I took AP Art History last year and we spent a good deal of time looking at Greek Art. Over the course of the Quarter we will have three essay tests in class. We took our first one two or three weeks ago, I got a 94/100 without even studying. This next one is cumulative so I'll have to try a bit harder. However I'm not anticipating any problems.

So far, University has proven to be just as easy as, or even easier, than High School.

In other news, I have four unposted paintings, two of which are completed already, and pencil drawing I did for art class that need to be posted. The two completed ones may take a while to get up though, because they're going into contest this weekend and I don't know for sure when I'm getting them back.

And in other other news, I am single again and on the market. I won't bore you with details, unless you ask of course, but needless to say Shaun and I did not work out. So umm, I REALLY want and need a boyfriend who gets me. Really gets me. No one seems to like me at school. Highschool or University of Cincinnati (which is saying something because UC has about 20,000 students probably 50% of which are straight males). I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, all I know is that I'm the constant variable here that always seems to be the center of things falling apart. I need to know what kind of vibe I'm putting off that says "Stay away from me 'cause I'll castrate you." I just know that it needs to stop... maybe I'm just not cute? That might explain a lot. I personally don't think I'm very attractive, so maybe that's all it is. Because there are TONS of pretty girls on campus that most guys would rather look at. I understand that.