The Septimus Notes

Thursday, November 24, 2005

|Just when I thought I was out...|

Only minutes after the last post did I head off to school. Habitually, when I arrive to school I check my mailbox as I've finally started receiving law school spam here in Paris. Be it a Tier 1 or a Tier 4, it's nice to feel wanted.

There was nothing in my box and I was turning to leave when the desk woman shouts to me, "Jason, yes? You have a packet." And I thought, "Oh, alright. I guess a school sent me a viewbook too big to fit in my box." And she pulls out a UPS package. And my heart started to beat. FAST.

It was from the University of Michigan. It was big. I cut it open. A large, white envelope with something hard inside. Literally, my hands started to tremble. But in my head I tried to remain rational, "It's probably just the letter saying that my file is complete."

No. It was a letter saying that I have been accepted into one of the greatest law school's in the country. With a hand-written personal note saying that they would really like me to attend, with the word "very" in the first line of the otherwise standard acceptance letter underlined in the same pen that wrote the note.

I started screaming. And then I ran into the garden, saw that there was no one I recognized, and still shouted, "I just got into law school!" I was still shaking.

And then to top it off, I passed by the front office and the woman stopped me because a second package had arrived: the kindest care package from the kindest girl in the world. Maria had sent me a Halloween package, two weeks before Halloween (but French customs are hell to get through), filled with candy, cinnamon sticks, a new cookie recipe, tea and, I could hardly believe it, vanilla pudding mix! Oh, and a tiny pumpkin.

Today might actually be the best goddamned day of my life.

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 07:54.
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