hokiday

[fahye]

Plumber booked. Haircut booked. Print cartridge replaced. Dinner cooked. Credit card application completed. I'd like to lodge a request to return my adulthood, please. Even if only for a little while.

Anyway, I have worked my ass off all day like a good little perfectionistic overachiever, and am straying online to see if anyone on the flist has had any experience with the Golden Key International Honour Society, as I have been sent an invitation.

Good: potential for scholarships/networking/career help/leadership workshops, warm fuzzy feelings of elitism.

Bad: registration fee, something else that wants to eat my spare time.

Thoughts?

I think I need a 'good little perfectionistic overachiever' icon.

In the meantime, Ji and Caleb (whilst not consuming bizarre egg sandwiches*) have found me the perfect shirt. Aww. But seriously, how do people find the TIME for relationships? HOW? NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN DAY.

*See, down here? An egg sandwich contains hardboiled egg mushed up with (usually) mayonnaise. Curry powder optional. My sister prefers tomato sauce to mayonnaise, which is very Aussie of her. Apparently an American egg sandwich is fried eggs in bread, which...why...GREASE EW...flavourless...out of cheese error...

ETA: Mumblemumble. If pressed, there is a high likelihood I will utterly deny ever writing Stealth fic.

Comments

Golden Key

[drealle.livejournal.com]

I'm a member of the Golden Key Honour Society. It's one of those distinctly American traditions that really doesn't mesh with Australian society. Much like egg sandwiches. I always go the curry powder

Good: They gave me a $500 scholarship for recent charity work. They do things like Clean Up Australia Day, and raise money for charities, and they might pay for you to go to an international conference.

Bad: It costs $80. They all sound like crazy resume fillers on their way to Stanford. I've never been brave enough to go to anything past the first presentation ceremony.

Re: Golden Key

[woodstock-21.livejournal.com]

I'm a member too, and so far I haven't received any good things yet (like money, where's my money? I want money >.<) but considering I've only been a member for a month or so, I'm going to wait and see.

They're good for job applications, from what I've heard. I've already been sent a pretty good job application, which would be perfect if I wasn't, you know, an undergrad and therefore far too unqualified to be thinking about that kind of job. But you know...

Re: Golden Key

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*giggles at your icon*

Well, I doubt they'll want to throw money at me, but I do have something of a weakness for anything that sends me flattering invitations and talks about academic excellence and career prospects. This is why I started going to university open day two years earlier than everyone else I know. Um.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

That is, in fact, not a normal egg sandwich in America. It's something Ji picked up in Africa and didn't know it. BUT IT IS TASTY! A typical American egg sandwich is scrambled eggs on bread with mayo and mustard. But I totally want to try your egg sandwich. I think it's called an egg salad sandwich here.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Scrambled eggs with MAYO AND MUSTARD?

Oh, well, I suppose that's...vaguely logical. I put tomato sauce on my scrambled eggs.

I am so glad I invented 'trans-pacific culinary confusion' when I revamped my interests yesterday.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

...I have not EVER had scrambled eggs with mayo and mustard. EW.

Egg salad sandwich = hard boiled egg w/mayo and mustard, on bread.

Egg sandwich = fried egg(s), often with cheese and/or some sort of breakfast meat on a bread product. sometimes bread, more often on the east coast, especially near NYC, bagels.

What kind of crazy shit goes on out there in CA?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I learned my egg sandwich fu in Africa. It's not normal in CA either.

:X

[genarti]

...Scrambled eggs and mayo and mustard? Uh. I have never heard of that concoction, and rather fear it. Ew.

What you call an egg sandwich, Fahye, I'd call an egg salad sandwich, and by that name it's a common American food.

If you're at a fast food place, they might have breakfast sandwiches which have scrambled or fried eggs on a biscuit, croissant, bagel, or bread, generally with cheese and some sort of meat. (Sausage, bacon, and/or ham are the usual ones.) So they'd call that an egg and cheese sandwich, or whatever.

I myself have fried eggs on toast a lot, sometimes with tomatoes or whatever, and call it a fried egg sandwich, but that's not something one can usually buy.