Break Out The Party Hats

Well everything's official now. Not that it wasn't before, but its good to have all this stuff in writing. Just a few observations/notes from reading through all this paperwork...

• Seeing as how all this stuff has a postmark date of November 16, 2005, they could have saved $1.26 in postage by just handing me all of this in person as I was up there on the 16th anyways.
• The envelope that says CONGRATULATIONS on it definitely takes away some of the surprise. And what happens if I wasn't accepted? Just kick me while I'm down why don'tcha?
• Surprisingly my student ID number remained the same. However, my email address did not. My first four years at Clemson blessed me with pterenc@clemson.edu. Lovely. Now for the return trip, I get terencp@clemson.edu. Better, but would it have been that much trouble to give me the last E in my name? Or even better yet, how about the email address I had while I was an Ambassador -- tpolk@clemson.edu -- the one I never used.
  
• I tested/coursed out of the first 11 hours of the program. Highly beneficial in that it saves me a ton of money. Notso beneficial in that I'm pretty sure I've forgotten whatever it is I tested/coursed out of in the past two and a half years.
• And the most important piece of information -- classes start January 8. That gives me about 6 weeks to find employment or housing. I just need one or the other at the moment. I think I can wing it for a little bit until I get all of my ducks in a row...

As a bonus to all of my readers, which might be 6 people, you guys should feel special. Mom definitely didn't even know I had applied to grad school let alone got accepted until sometime late Sunday night. Apparently I forgot to tell her a week ago. Whoops.