An Uncertain Future

Alex, Andrea, and I planned on going to FioRito's last night, but it seemed like it had closed down completely. There were padlocks all over the outside of the doors and windows. There also was graffiti on one of the doors. Too bad I can't find the post on reddit yesterday where someone had written in an "i" in graffiti to form giraffiti and drew a giraffe. I enjoyed that quite a bit and writing graffiti reminded me of it.
Anyways, after finding out FioRito's appeared to be closed down (we still had a $25 certificate from restaurants.com too!), we ended up going to Caruso's. It was both Alex and my first time there. Alex got the eggplant parmigiana with the salad. She said it was one of the best salads she ever had. She also enjoyed the eggplant which was not fried like the dish often seems to be. I had the Caruso's special (1 meat ravioli, 1 cheese ravioli, spaghetti, and 2 homemade meatballs with meat sauce). It was very tasty, and I am interested in trying the white garlic sauce there. The prices were pretty normal for an Italian place, and in fact seemed a bit low compared to other places around town.
It's getting close to two months since I have finished my thesis. I still can't believe I wrote a 113 page piece of research. The amazing thing is that I could have kept going. I even cut out a whole chapter that I had planned on writing. I am currently reading Dr. Futrell's Blood in the Arena. It is really interesting, and I should have used it more in my thesis. On second thought, I am glad that I didn't. It was hard enough getting it in on time as it was.
I still have not heard anything from any of the schools to which I applied. It is frustrating. Luke was accepted to Chicago and invited to visit Yale. Drew is supposed to visit Duke. Here I am just waiting and waiting. I really want to be accepted somewhere. At this point I am not picky. I have a slight hierarchy (Brown, Toronto, Penn State, Texas, Buffalo, Boston, Rutgers, Washington, and Oregon (?)), but being accepted anywhere would be great, and I would feel honored to attend any of these schools. The checking of emails ranges anywhere from 4-10 times a weekday. In fact, how about right now? Nothing. I have not started to call my parents because my dad called me immediately when something came from Oregon (just a confirmation of application and the verification number and what not).
Concerning applications of a different sort, I still have not found a job. I am only working about 6 hours a week at the Reffkin Tennis Center. I had 4 or so private lessons with a lady, Katya, from Switzerland. It was nice. She was friendly and a pretty good player. I wouldn't mind taking on more, but I am reluctant to work when Alex is off. That is also a factor in the amount of hours on Saturday. I don't know how much I really want to teach kids anyway. I still need a break from it. But yeah, nothing new on the old job search. I tried Bookman's, Baggin's, some banks but nothing yet. Compass Bank rejected me in 2 hours in fact. It was pretty funny. I got an email saying they were pursuing a different candidate, but I had applied for three positions which upon checking the site I had been rejected for all of them. I don't really know what jobs are out there or for what kind I should be looking. Alex tells me that I should leave master's degree off my resume as it over qualifies me for some jobs. She also says that she saw a report that a master's can actually make it harder to find a job. I feel weird about leaving it off though. It feels a little disingenuous, and I worked hard for that degree. Everyone fudges their applications though; don't they? Oh well. I have had some time to do a bit of cleaning around the apartment in between the email checking.