And Slowly I Approach the Cliff and Prepare to JUMP.

Okay ladies and gentlemen. This is it. The moment you've all been waiting for, or maybe not you all, but I know I have. I will know as of Tuesday where my life will be going for the next year (or at least have some semblance of cognition) and unfortunately it's not as clear-cut as I would like. The good news is, I did get to go to Costa Rica and that was really awesome and I'm glad I went. I spent two weeks there away from the ridiculousness that is Washington DC and it was kind of theraputic. Only to return and find that the things that are going on now are some of the most stressful of my life. First, I find that Roehampton University (the school in London) has certified my loans but not to my lender for whatever reason, so they're three weeks behind in getting my information out like they should, coupled with the realization that I had my biometrics appointment on two Wednesdays ago and everything must be on the Consulate's desk by this coming Wednesday. So in a week and a half, I have sent like a hundred emails to London and to NC trying to figure out how to right this momentous wrong.

The result? Things were finished and I had everything certified and I went and got my passport photos and had my original transcripts sent to the office where they should be waiting on me Monday morning. However: on the last day of certification this past week, the man that's doing my case Mr. Keith Williams (really nice guy) told me he would push my grad PLUS application through even though I was denied on credit because I was working on it. On Thursday, I got an email saying everything was mailed off and certified but on my way out the door, I look online and what do I see?

Grad PLUS: denied. That's not good. That's not good at all because if it is denied then EVERYTHING I've done for the last year in preparation for this trip will be for nothing. London has everything ready for me. My room, my classes, the plane ticket, the greeting, the teachers everything. And here I am at the edge of the greatest point in my life, only to possibly have it snatched away because I don't get that loan, I can't possibly go. What they gave me alone isn't enough to cover what London is going to want. So....we will have to wait until tomorrow. I think maybe the computer is saying that while Keith himself pushed it through and the computer just hasn't caught up with the realization. That's happened before in the last two weeks, just not like this. So yeah I'm gonna be blowing up his phone EARLY tomorrow morning to find out just what he did. And I hope to God I just being paranoid.

So I'm practically done packing up my apartment. All the furniture is gone, thrown away :( and the pots, and pans and everything is gone. So now I'm waiting for MetroAccess to come and take me over to Scherrone's so I can move my stuff there, finish with this last month and be gone. On a side note, turns out for some reason I didn't have the time to cover my Costa Rica trip so as a result, my check is getting halved tomorrow, but you know what? Whatever. They can do what they have to do so long as they pay me and move on. I don't have time to deal with it, as I have so many other things going on, it's irrelevent. Just another link in the chain, so to speak. So I will have to update you guys when I find out my fate.

Ciao.