After spending an hour on hold earlier today, I learned that Newfoundland Student Aid did in fact received my confirmation of costs form. Nearly a week ago, actually. In spite of this, my loan status online has not yet been updated to reflect that. It will be another five business days before my loan is assessed. After that, the loan documents will be sent on to Acadia Student Accounts, who will pass them on to me, and I in turn will bring them to the two different banks to which they need to be delivered. The banks will then forward them to their national student loan centres. Then they'll be processed and distributed to me. By direct deposit, thank god for that.
While I do understand how most of these steps are necessary, it still seems really awful.
At this rate, I won't actually get my loan money until November. On the upside, I guess that gives me that much less time to spend it. : /
Until then, I'm poor.
We just discovered this today... I'm inordinately pleased with it. It means I can shove up there all the stuff that's been taking up closet real estate but that I don't really use. It's sweet.
So as it turns out, the paper I co-wrote for work over the summer has been accepted for publication at the "Collaboration Agents workshop to be help in conjunction with the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence / Intelligent Agent Technology." One of the reviewers even rated it as being of high "Significance... & originality."
This is really exciting, and yes, I have in fact been bragging a little. : )
It's going to be orally presented at the workshop on October 13th... I think I'm going to try to make it down to Halifax to go, providing I don't have any midterms to worry about around then.
I went to the bar last night with these people. It was fun, though I wish at the bar they'd start mixing up the songs they play, rather than having a block of a certain type of music at a time. I end up being really bored with the music for long stretches of time, followed by getting stitches in my side from dancing to so many songs in a row when the music changes.
The picture actually turned out pretty well, after applying the red eye reduction. Especially when you consider the fact that only half the people were actually expecting the picture to be taken when it was, and the fact that is was so dark in the living room that I could only make out shadows on the screen when I was trying to aim the camera.
I'm seriously all about that digital camera these days, which I think is somewhat expressing itself here. I guess that's not such a bad thing, because at least it counts for content of some sort. : )
It also puts me in mind of a conversation I had a while ago with
Anyway, I think I'm rambling now... I'm tired. Up until 5AM + work at 10AM is not a fun combination.
This is my first entry posted using wireless on my laptop. It's pretty sweet.
Classes are looking okay, I need to figure out what the hell is going on with my thesis/project conundrum, and the USC has been insane (though at least I'm getting lots of hours).
Steph and I are planning on heading to the Axe on Friday night, and we will possibly be joined by Matt and Tiffany.
That's pretty much it. Things have been insanely busy, but not particularly eventful.
Back in Wolfville at last. My dad and I headed down to the U-Haul place for 8:00 AM, when it opened. It turned out that they'd gotten a 26' truck in over night, and they ended up calling the head office and asking if they could give it to us. They said yes, and so there we were with far more space than we could ever have needed, but a truck nonetheless. From there, everything seemed to be sunshine and light by comparison.
We had pretty much everything all boxed up and ready to go, so packing up the truck was a breeze. And so, after picking up a dozen samosas at the farmer's market, we were on the road. The trip was pretty uneventful, the cats intermittantly yowled along the way, and we arrived around eight-ish.
Matt helped us unpack, and my dad seemed impressed by his general competence. As it turned out, our furniture is fitting in fairly well. The cats have paid only perfunctory to Matt's degus, and god bless him, Matt has so far had both REM, Barenaked Ladies, and Chris Cornell on his MP3 playlist. Also, our apartment is awesome. So things are looking up.
I'm back at the USC, which feels really weird without Sean, Darrell and Ross around. But we'll live. ; p
Anyhow, shift's over and it's time to go home. Must sleep, class in the morning. I really want to try to keep up with this whole 'getting up at a decent time in the morning' thing that's been happening the last few days. It makes it seem like there's so much more time in the day to get things done. Night, all.
