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Old 07-06-2009, 09:02 PM   #341
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That's awesome! Congrats LG! I know the feeling of relief that comes with those letters.
Thanks. I was expecting a response like, "We regret to inform you that you did not pass the examination." Glad I didn't see that. The weekly night classes (2.5 hours each) I took from February until mid-April that helped me prepare weren't for naught.

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Old 07-06-2009, 10:27 PM   #342
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That's excellent! Well done, dude!
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Old 07-09-2009, 07:16 PM   #343
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That's excellent! Well done, dude!
Thank you. Exams that take all day are BRUTAL no matter what the subject matter is. The next step for me is to take the PE exam, but I have to wait at least four years before I can take that.

On a completely unrelated note, coming home from a 12 hour day without dealing with the evening rush hour traffic made my day today.

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Old 07-12-2009, 04:46 PM   #344
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I finally found a DVD of the movie "Nicholas and Alexandra." I have it on VHS, but I now have nothing but DVD players. Now I hope I can get "Rasputin" starring Allan Rickman (HBO movie).
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Old 07-12-2009, 06:35 PM   #345
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I loved that movie! Anything about the Romanovs I found fascinating. Such a normal yet glamorous life they lived, with such a tragic end.

We're getting more little t-storms today. Nothing major, no heavy rainfall, but every now and then I'll hear a distant rumble of thunder. And when yesterday I was panting and drinking iced beverages, today I'm wearing sweats and drinking hot cocoa. Seattle weather is weird, but I like it.
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Old 07-13-2009, 02:01 AM   #346
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I finally found a DVD of the movie "Nicholas and Alexandra." I have it on VHS, but I now have nothing but DVD players. Now I hope I can get "Rasputin" starring Allan Rickman (HBO movie).
We watched both of those films back in A Level history class - as I recall, they were very good. Sadly, the information given at the end of the "Rasputin" film is now a bit out of date, thanks to some really very recent forensic testing which was finally able to identify the bodies of the two missing Romanov children. I remember feeling saddened when I heard about that - on the one hand, it was nice to finally have one of the great historical mysteries solved, but, up until that point, it was also nice having that small window of possibility that they might just have survived, even if the odds would have always been quite heavily stacked against them, particularly Alexei.

As for something which made my own day, well, yesterday I went hiking around a local coast with my two housemates, and we saw a whole family of one of my favourite animals - that is, weasels (or possibly stoats - they moved a bit fast for me to properly identify them). They just happened to run out in front of us while we were walking, and disappear into some long grasses, and there must have been at least eight of them. I wasn't able to get any pictures, since it was all over so quickly, but I feel really privileged just to have seen it. Definitely something you had to be in exactly the right place at the right time for.
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Old 07-13-2009, 02:30 AM   #347
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This didn't happen today, but on Friday just gone I booked a hotel room down in Portsmouth for 3 days at the end of the month, it got confirmed on Saturday, so roll on the 27th.
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Old 07-19-2009, 09:28 PM   #348
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I got a letter from my health insurance provider on Saturday. I didn't bother reading it until a half-hour ago; it's the weekend, so whatever they wanted I couldn't do anything about until Monday. Anyway, I did open it, and I have just now discovered that my monthly premium went down. How rare - and cool - is that?
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Old 07-24-2009, 06:19 PM   #349
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Some of you may remember this from December of '07, in the "What Ticks You Off" thread-
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Ugh, student loans. And then paycheck garnishes to pay it off since I wasn't paying enough on my own. Starting today, I am now even more broke than I already was.
Well, what makes my day today is

They're finally paid off! The garnishment is over! I have money again!!!!! Whooo hoooooo!!!

And just in time for the Con. I was expecting it to end last month, but I still tallied the end pretty close I guess. But now I know it's official. Oh. My. WORD! You have no idea what a breath of fresh air this is.

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Old 07-25-2009, 10:11 AM   #350
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