Battle of the Ants

Eesh. This whole school thing is turning into a bit of a Zelda quest... present an official transcript to the admissions office... wait a week to hear if I got "accepted" or not... obtain the magical Letter of Acceptance and bring to the old man near the river (and by "bring" and "old man near the river" I mean "fax" and "Citizens Bank student loan department")... you get the idea. I'm not even 100% certain it will all work out, truth be told. Bear in mind, I'm talking about just taking a few courses at Manhattan College as a non-matriculated student, just for the fall semester, to prep for grad school applications, not grad school itself. It was perhaps a bit shortsighted of me to assume I could just walk in and take classes at a private college like Manhattan; registering for the chemistry classes at Purchase was a cinch because it's a state/public school.

Alas, 'tis all but a sub-quest anyway... my "Ganon" (ha!) will, of course, be getting accepted to a grad program next fall. Keep on truckin'...

Rob sure is camping-happy with his new tent and outdoor gear... case in point: last night we "camped out" on the roof of our apartment. Kinda fun. It's a big enough roof that no one from any surrounding street could really see us. I'd do it again. Although that air conditioning unit wasn't exactly quiet.

Man, the random stuff you find on Wikipedia... last night after some beer, malt liquor, Ben and Jerry's and stargazing (on a bit of a "f*ck you, Monday" binge), Rob-o and I got to talking about space, the universe, etc., and I was saying how I remembered something about how part of what you see on TV static/"snow" is due to the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the big bang... I wasn't sure how correct I was so I Wiki'd it earlier and found that, yes, not only was I right, but that in Sweden that "snow" effect is often referred to as "Myromas Krig," or "Battle of the Ants." If that's not useless knowledge, I don't know what is.