Today, I went to Neighborhood Market (Walmart grocery store), bought nine items, and they used three bags.  Because, obviously, the average person can only carry three small items in each sack!

I thought that was wasteful…before I went to Taco Bell.

They gave me two sporks, four napkins, and twenty packets of hot sauce!

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I didn’t even order anything that needed a spork, let alone a red sea of hot.

But perhaps I shouldn’t think of them as twenty packets of hot sauce so much as one bowl of spicy soup.

…and I’m just putting off my work for class tomorrow.  I wonder if procrastination blogging will become a common thing for me every Wednesday.

Oh right, I’m taking two upper-level history classes.  I start off my Thursday evenings with U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1917, then wind down with a bit of Black Intellectual History.  They’re both great, but also very needy of my time out of class.  I enjoy (for now) being the student once more.  But as the student, I should really get back to that work I’ve still gotta do!

Ech.

And that something official finally came (so it seems I gotta actually tell you now)!

I’ve been accepted into the public history graduate program at the University of West Florida.

No, wait.  More feeling.

I’ve been accepted into the public history graduate program at the University of West Florida!!!!ZoMG!!!!!11

Yeah, with emphasis and flair.

In case you don’t even know what public history is, it’s teaching history…to the public!  And I’ll be emphasizing in museum studies.  Hopefully no explanation is needed there.

The only hitch is that I’ll be paying out-of-state tuition, which is a huge, giant ouch in my brain.  The only hope I have is to secure an assistantship that several other students are vying for.  My one benefit is that I’m out-of-state, and my one downfall is that I have to make roughly a 1300 on the GRE before July.  I could cry.  A 1300!  I don’t remember math!  And I’ve been spending the last two years speaking dumbed-down English!

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Is this where I ask total strangers for money?  The desire is great, but I shall resist!

(and please appreciate that I now have a new category…”school”!)