So it's all but official: None of the 5 grad schools to which I applied are accepting me.

The one I was waiting on, Western Michigan University, was supposed to notify me around April 15th regarding the admission decision. And they hadn't. In fact, I hadn't received any communication from Western at all. It was starting to freak me out because they are out of session. That's right, Spring term ended on like April 23rd. And I was freaking out because who the heck was making decisions now? Had my letter got lost in the mail? Did they pull an Emerson or a USC and get my name wrong and send it to the wrong address?

So I contacted a few people in the department. Turns out they contacted all of their first choice applicants and they're waiting to hear back from them. Then they'll contact all of the rejects.

It breaks my heart. But I seriously don't have any more tears left. I think I used them up this week. Z got a call yesterday informing him that he's going to be trained to be a manager, and after that he'll be moved another store---50 miles away from where we currently live. To put it simply: I was devastated.

I should have been happy, and certainly, after much consideration, I am pretty happy about it now. But there's not a whole lot of work posted for the Santa Barbara area. Which scares me because if I'm going to get stuck at a job I don't necessarily like I would at least appreciate working in an industry that I love (like film or publishing or video games). There just ain't nothing in Santa Barbara. In L.A. there are thousands of jobs posted a day--hundreds of which are actually creative in nature! So I have hope of finding another job that I will actually enjoy.

But in Santa Barbara?

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