…than ruin other people’s nights.

Seriously, what are these people thinking when they screw up Second Life? It is going to take 5 hours to fix this one. I wasn’t in-world when it happened, but I hear it was bad. And now I’m locked out of the forums, so I can’t even see what’s going on. Ugh.

I applied online last night to Dalhousie University. I paid my application fee ($45.00 - I wonder if they took that from my account in Canadian funds, or in American… Hmmm… ) over the phone this morning. I’m going to be mailing away tomorrow to have my transcripts sent over from OCC. I’m freaking out now. I want so badly to get in. I have always wanted to go to a university, and I’ve given that up on more than two occasions for various… personal reasons.

I’m just hoping that someone is smiling down on me and realizing that this is finally my chance to start my life. My chance to be something for once. I have worked so hard to give everyone everything that I was capable of. I’m just hoping it’s my turn.

I love school. I might have joined in with the teenage-angst-ridden complaining all during high school, and skipped a class or two my first year in college, but deep down, I truly love school. I like learning new things. I like the social feeling of a classroom or a library. I like doing homework. It makes me feel like I’m the one person in the world who knows what I’m doing at that moment, and all the while, I’m keeping my brain occupied. I love carrying around my books, and I love shiny new notebooks and binders and pens and pencils… I swear, I’m in heaven every time I walk into an office supply store.

I’ve wanted forever to go to a “real” university. There’s just something so intriguing about it to me. The incredibly social feel to it. And everyone seems so responsible and sure of what they’re doing.

This will be a dream come true. IF I get in.