Still Damn Excited!

I just got an "official" email from SFU notifying me of the commitee's recommendation for acceptance into the School of Interactivee Arts and Technology Masters Program. I'm so excited all over again! I mean before it was just some chick telling me over the phone that I was in so I mean honestly, how excited could I get (pretty damn excited in case you were wondering)? But now...woo hoo! Yay! I'm so damn excited! And then there will be a letter which is even more real than an email and then the letter from the Dean which is the actual formal acceptance notification and then I'll be able to apply for a TA position (again, not the T&A position - I've already got that covered thank you very much) and then there'll be the grad school package (minds out of the gutter!) and then enrollment and blah, blah, blah! I'm so excited! Did I mention that already? Because I am. :-)Yay!

And it's great timing because tonight I'm going out for a congratulatory dinner with some of my professors from Malaspina and that's damn exciting too! Yay! It's really nice that they want to have this dinner tonight. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Especially since I wouldn't have gotten this far if it weren't for their influence. It was one of my design professors that bullied me into applying to NSCAD for the honour program (and paid for the shipping and application fees as well), and it was my current boss at the college who gave me the push I needed to apply for this masters degree program and not to mention gave me the job that has made it possible for me to actually pay for it! And it was his wife who gave me the design contracts I've been working on with the college that are also making a dent in the looming tuition costs. Well, in theory. We'll see how that goes. :-) I'm not so good with the money. But anyway, it just makes me really happy to have this group of people who have so much faith in my braininess and capabilities and have been so willing to help me to get where I want to be. I'm feeling so squishy right now. I have to go hug my dog. I know that grad school is something that tonnes of people do all the time, but for me it seems like a really big deal. I don't know why.

Okay bye!

*** The girl in my previous post with the blue-ish sweater on actually has TWO masters degrees already! One in some weird science-y subject (something to do with parasites I think) and one in forensics! She's so cool. I want a masters in forensics! Grrr. Gimmme!