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I don't know whether it was actually detectable, but I've gone a little quiet the past few days.
Friday night when I got home late from going out with a co-worker for a couple of beers and Zodiac (which by the way, let me just say, is SO on my list for Yuletide this year--animal crackers=love, QED), I discovered a letter in the mail from my school, informing me that they might be kicking me out because I'm not registered for classes this semester.
So then there was the after-midnight phone call to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iuliamentis, who patiently talked me down from my immediate reaction, which was pretty much Oh God I am never going to graduate, I just want to go HOME.
And then, because I couldn't actually do anything about the situation, I sort of holed up and hid from humanity all weekend, alternating watching episodes of CSI:NY and finally actually doing a significant chunk of writing on the Numb3rs epic for the first time in way too long.
Monday I got in touch with my adviser, who professed total ignorance of the procedure for obtaining a Waiver of Continuous Registration, my one shot at not getting kicked out of school, but she pointed me to the adviser who did. I dutifully called her yesterday morning and she, bless her, called me back yesterday while I was still at work. She explained that the Petition for Waiver of Continuous Registration was a form available on the university's website, that I should fill it out and submit it to my school along with my general reasoning for not registering, etc. etc.
So it turned out to be one page: my identifying information plus basically a ticky-box promise not to mooch university resources without paying tuition. \o/
I filled it in and turned it in last night, along with a brief summary of how I came to be not in school this semester (upshot: because I'm a dumbass, that's why, but I'm an apologetic dumbass who can fill out a one-page form!) and the adviser promised to get back to me on when I might hear something.
This morning she got back to me. Apparently the ETA for getting my one-page form signed by two people in two offices on the same campus? Is three to four weeks. Registration for next semester (which I really! need! to register for! or they really will kick me out this time!) is three weeks from yesterday.
So if anyone has any good thoughts or vibes or prayers or other metaphysical means of encouraging an academic bureaucracy to not consign the entirety of 2007 to academic clusterfuck for me... I'd appreciate it.
In conclusion: still madly in love with Danny Messer. Also, it's hard being Charlie Eppes.
Friday night when I got home late from going out with a co-worker for a couple of beers and Zodiac (which by the way, let me just say, is SO on my list for Yuletide this year--animal crackers=love, QED), I discovered a letter in the mail from my school, informing me that they might be kicking me out because I'm not registered for classes this semester.
So then there was the after-midnight phone call to
iuliamentis, who patiently talked me down from my immediate reaction, which was pretty much Oh God I am never going to graduate, I just want to go HOME. And then, because I couldn't actually do anything about the situation, I sort of holed up and hid from humanity all weekend, alternating watching episodes of CSI:NY and finally actually doing a significant chunk of writing on the Numb3rs epic for the first time in way too long.
Monday I got in touch with my adviser, who professed total ignorance of the procedure for obtaining a Waiver of Continuous Registration, my one shot at not getting kicked out of school, but she pointed me to the adviser who did. I dutifully called her yesterday morning and she, bless her, called me back yesterday while I was still at work. She explained that the Petition for Waiver of Continuous Registration was a form available on the university's website, that I should fill it out and submit it to my school along with my general reasoning for not registering, etc. etc.
So it turned out to be one page: my identifying information plus basically a ticky-box promise not to mooch university resources without paying tuition. \o/
I filled it in and turned it in last night, along with a brief summary of how I came to be not in school this semester (upshot: because I'm a dumbass, that's why, but I'm an apologetic dumbass who can fill out a one-page form!) and the adviser promised to get back to me on when I might hear something.
This morning she got back to me. Apparently the ETA for getting my one-page form signed by two people in two offices on the same campus? Is three to four weeks. Registration for next semester (which I really! need! to register for! or they really will kick me out this time!) is three weeks from yesterday.
So if anyone has any good thoughts or vibes or prayers or other metaphysical means of encouraging an academic bureaucracy to not consign the entirety of 2007 to academic clusterfuck for me... I'd appreciate it.
In conclusion: still madly in love with Danny Messer. Also, it's hard being Charlie Eppes.