LA DEE DAAA…WOO-WOO…SWEET-NESS…CELEBRATORY DANCE AND A HALF

i know, i know, it's been like 2 years since i last wrote. it's mid-march and this is the first post this month...tsk! but i have le good news!!
so, on march 7th, i'm sitting at home, in front of the computer, at 2 in the morning, trying to do my science lab (trying is the operative word here). now, already, being awake at 2 am makes me quite dismal. but the science thing…aagghhrr! i mean i’m a humanities student. i don’t do math. i used to do math. i was actually vair vair good at it. but then i chose my path in life and filed everything math-related in the very back of my brain. it’s there somewhere, but it’s piled under a big heap of rando memories and info. i came to university moving happily along in my undergraduate degree, not needing to use math, apart from once in a while when i had to calculate the tip or something when we went out (‘how do you figure out the percent of something again?? anyone? anyone?’) (problem: friends are also in Hums, so none of them knew either). that was in first year. then i realized that if i add the GST and PST, that’s 15% of the price, so all i have to do is add that to the price and i have the tip. well, let’s just say, since then (with much thanks to cell-phone calculators) math has been history.
then i get to fourth year and they tell me i have to take a course called “history of science.” i was like, well ok cool, i like history. it would be nice to know, you know, the history of the scientific developments and all that. right??
it would have been cool if that was what the course was about! but NO! IT IS AN ACTUAL SCIENCE CLASS! we have labs and assignments and lab write-ups and a science paper and actual equations. this thursday i’m learning about quantum theory. madness! madness I tell you!!!
but anyways, where was i before i so rudely interrupted myself with this rant against the science class (which, to be fair, is actually quite interesting if you ignore the work), so i was sitting there calculating forty thousands standard deviations (yes, i know excel calculates it for you! i have been told this by only about 20 hundred people. but i rather do it by hand so i actually learn how to use the equation) (you never know when someone’s going to ask you to calculate the standard deviation of something on the spot…[roll eyes]) and checking my e-mail at the same time, when all of a sudden i see an e-mail marked “centre for medieval studies” from some lady named grace desa.
“AH!! omg, is it u of t?? did i get in??” excitement!! (press on it to open) (internet on my computer is dial-up, so it was taking its SWEET time) “come on, come on, come on, frig! Open open open”
‘THIS PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED. NO INTERNET CONNECTION’
“what?????”
It had disconnected on me!
“OH no you dieeeen’t!!”
(close all windows)
(shut down computer)
(restart computer)
(re-dial to the internet)
(re-open g-mail)
(re-press on THE e-mail)
And…
50 years later…
"I am happy to report that the Admissions and Fellowships Committee at the Centre for Medieval Studies have approved your application to a onesession M.A. program for 2007-2008."

YES YES YES!!
It was soooooooooo worth the wait!!