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Tonight is Abby's birthday party, and there's a living room full of seven girls right now, who are supposed to be going to sleep, although I have my doubts about how much sleep is currently being had.

Before bed, they were racing around doing makeovers and singing at a volume that I thought was really too loud for how late it was, but they were totally oblivious to the lateness or the volume.

Earlier in the evening we ate pizza, and went to the park, where the funniest event was watching a group of four teenagers, three boys and a girl. They buried the girl in the sand, and put quite a bit on top of her so that she was just a head sticking out. Then they spread bread on top of the sand and tried to lure the ducks on top of her. The ducks did not need to be asked twice.

After doing that for a while, one of the guys tried to get her to hold the bread in her teeth and see if a duck would take the bread right out of her mouth, but she wasn't going for that. So he decided that he'd try it, without the benefit of a pile of sand to disguise his true nature from the ducks. It didn't take long before he was whooping it up because one bold duck stole the bread right from his teeth.

But in spite of all that excitement, the really big news of the evening was that I found out that I've been accepted to the MBA program at the UW. I checked my email sometime in the middle of the pizza, and I had an email telling me I was in! Now the next three years are definitely coming into a lot clearer focus. It looks something like this: go to class, go to work, study, go to work, go to class, wash, rinse, repeat.

But in spite of little to no free time for the next three years, I am really excited about the program. It looks like I'll learn a ton, and that it will all be interesting stuff that I can really use right away. Plus, I get to buy new school supplies this fall. And I totally love buying school supplies.

Posted by Rachel at June 5, 2004 12:07 AM