Yesterday, we didn't get any mail at all! Not even the annoying "Shopper Stopper" junk mail (advertising homes for sale around town, and with lots of grocery store inserts for grocery stores that don't make sense for us to go to because they're farther away and more expensive than the one just a mile from our home).
My theory? Brandon's letter for vet school either (a) hasn't been sent from the vet school yet, or (b) got stuck inside someone else's junk magazine, and was tossed away. It's so rare that we get no mail at all...
On the upside, I did dream THREE TIMES during the night (and it was a short night, because I watched an Italian movie for class) that Brandon got an acceptance letter. And my dreams have an odd regularity with concrete things like this of coming true (who's doubting his acceptance anyway? not me!).
So if anyone wants to see a kind of funny Italian movie (I relied on the English subtitles, but I understood more of the stuff I heard than I'd thought I would) that is set in the 80's with a bizarre ending, try to find "Notte Prima Degli Esami" (the last nights before the final exams). It's the story of a bunch of students who are preparing for the huge exams that students take at the end of "high school" and all the teen stuff that goes along with life (drugs, procrastinating, knowing more about sports than literary history, love, family...). The exams are a big deal, and pretty much make or break their life - and include both written and oral components (oral exams agains a panel - maybe like a doctoral dissertation defense style?). They remind me of the stress level of the British GCSEs and A-levels (for Harry Potter fans, that would be the O.W.L.s and the N.E.W.T.s), but having never completed those I can't really compare. Sometimes I wish I would have had to finish at least GCSEs. I think I would've learned to work consistently better that way, rather than leaving stuff till almost the last minute.
Which reminds me - I have a paper due Tuesday. My first paper since I graduated almost 3 years ago. Do I still know how to write a paper?!? I think so. I did a some research about 4 weeks ago, but I really haven't done anything since then - at least nothing that includes a written paragraph, or even a sentence... oh well! I'll work hard on Friday and Saturday.
But for now - I just have to wait and be patient for the end of the day, in hopes of Brandon's letter arriving in the mail.
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