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Alright, so my few long ass days are over now. I've had a nap and a shower, we have air conditioning back, and I'll actually be able to sleep tonight - and nto ahve to get up at ass o'clock tomorrow morning. Woo!

So, I still have some drama with Frostburg stuff going on. My History of MD and Vietnam Era classes transferred but they didn't transfer as they correlating classes at Frostburg. And so upon meeting with the Department Advisor yesterday, he claimed that I had no upper level classes. I argued my point - and though he wasn't pleased that no books (Awesome!Prof is morally opposed to the use of textbooks) he was iffy about it - and he let me in the class I needed. Which is all about writing history papers with reliable primary/secondary sources - which I can do. I do have to bug awesome!Prof and get the Syllabi(?) for the two classes and get him to write a letter or something for me so they'll count for realz. But yeah. That hopefully will all work out.

Second order of business - today was Graduation - I now have my A.A. degree, graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a 3.66 GPA. The day, however, did not start out on a good note. I woke up at like... 5:45 and couldn't get back to sleep. Mostly because I was hot and grumpy and hungry because the power was still out. Hung around and did virtually nothing until 8:30, when it was time to leave (and had tremendous fun totally re-planning what I was wearing given that the shirt I had intended to wear had gotten trapped in the washing machine due to the EPICPOWERFAILOFFAILNESS (which, our power withstands hurricanes and snowstorms without issue, typically, and it was out for near 24 hours because of a 20 minutes storm? Um, wut?)) Got checked in and stuff by 9. I got to wander around in the gym til 10 - got my picture taken and picked up my PTK stole thing and the 3.5+GPA tassel thing - when we lined up in... relative alphabetical order. Stood around in the 88 degree weather with our black regalia until 10:30 which was just totally fun. Then we started heading down to the tents in one of the fields. There were like... 750 of us. 2000 Grads technically - like the biggest class ever - but only 750 were in for the Ceremony. It took forever getting everyone in. Then a few people had speeches and then they started the equally lengthy process of handing out the... folders for the degrees - which was when we crossed the stage and whatnot. Holy hell was it hot under the tent. Finally, when that was done, we did the tassel-flippy thing and then they started filing us out. The faculty (and waaaaay too many of them were there, too O_O) went out before us and lined the path we had to walk. So I saw a few Prof's I knew (Awesome!Prof and the other really cool history Prof. Headed back in to the check-in building to fetch my degree and then we high-tailed it out of there, skipped the reception thing (I'm still not sure how they intended to fit upwards of 1000 people into one building that isn't all that big, but whatever) and headed home.

ETA: Oh. Schedule:
10:00-10:50 [English/History] Literature of the Age of Revolution (MWF)
11:00-11:50 [English] Social Sciences Advanced Composition (MWF)
1:00-1:50 [History/English] Writing & Research In History (MWF)
3:00-4:15 [Philosophy] History of Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval (MW)

... It looks as if I am an English major this semester. Most of the classes I really wanted to take were full cause it's pretty late in the registration game. Bleh. Spring'll be better.

Now, I have one loooong email to write to Awesome!Prof about the class-transfer issue, and then I am working on fic.

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Alright, so my few long ass days are over now. I've had a nap and a shower, we have air conditioning back, and I'll actually be able to sleep tonight - and nto ahve to get up at ass o'clock tomorrow morning. Woo!

So, I still have some drama with Frostburg stuff going on. My History of MD and Vietnam Era classes transferred but they didn't transfer as they correlating classes at Frostburg. And so upon meeting with the Department Advisor yesterday, he claimed that I had no upper level classes. I argued my point - and though he wasn't pleased that no books (Awesome!Prof is morally opposed to the use of textbooks) he was iffy about it - and he let me in the class I needed. Which is all about writing history papers with reliable primary/secondary sources - which I can do. I do have to bug awesome!Prof and get the Syllabi(?) for the two classes and get him to write a letter or something for me so they'll count for realz. But yeah. That hopefully will all work out.

Second order of business - today was Graduation - I now have my A.A. degree, graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a 3.66 GPA. The day, however, did not start out on a good note. I woke up at like... 5:45 and couldn't get back to sleep. Mostly because I was hot and grumpy and hungry because the power was still out. Hung around and did virtually nothing until 8:30, when it was time to leave (and had tremendous fun totally re-planning what I was wearing given that the shirt I had intended to wear had gotten trapped in the washing machine due to the EPICPOWERFAILOFFAILNESS (which, our power withstands hurricanes and snowstorms without issue, typically, and it was out for near 24 hours because of a 20 minutes storm? Um, wut?)) Got checked in and stuff by 9. I got to wander around in the gym til 10 - got my picture taken and picked up my PTK stole thing and the 3.5+GPA tassel thing - when we lined up in... relative alphabetical order. Stood around in the 88 degree weather with our black regalia until 10:30 which was just totally fun. Then we started heading down to the tents in one of the fields. There were like... 750 of us. 2000 Grads technically - like the biggest class ever - but only 750 were in for the Ceremony. It took forever getting everyone in. Then a few people had speeches and then they started the equally lengthy process of handing out the... folders for the degrees - which was when we crossed the stage and whatnot. Holy hell was it hot under the tent. Finally, when that was done, we did the tassel-flippy thing and then they started filing us out. The faculty (and waaaaay too many of them were there, too O_O) went out before us and lined the path we had to walk. So I saw a few Prof's I knew (Awesome!Prof and the other really cool history Prof. Headed back in to the check-in building to fetch my degree and then we high-tailed it out of there, skipped the reception thing (I'm still not sure how they intended to fit upwards of 1000 people into one building that isn't all that big, but whatever) and headed home.

ETA: Oh. Schedule:
10:00-10:50 [English/History] Literature of the Age of Revolution (MWF)
11:00-11:50 [English] Social Sciences Advanced Composition (MWF)
1:00-1:50 [History/English] Writing & Research In History (MWF)
3:00-4:15 [Philosophy] History of Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval (MW)

... It looks as if I am an English major this semester. Most of the classes I really wanted to take were full cause it's pretty late in the registration game. Bleh. Spring'll be better.

Now, I have one loooong email to write to Awesome!Prof about the class-transfer issue, and then I am working on fic.