How do you know that you're right?

IU update for those who don't know:

It seems as if things are conspiring to not work out for me. Partially anyway.

I took an English class freshman year at Purdue, for some reason that class transferred to IUPUC as "Undistributed Credit" (which basically means that IUPUC is lazy) and then, for some OTHER stupid reason it transferred to IUB as the same thing. Even though on IUB's own admissions website, where they have a service that allows a user to see how classes and credits transfer, it says that it works for not one, but TWO classes, one of which is a 200 level course. (The Purdue course was a 100 level) I found out today that IUB cannot override what IUPUC did to my transcript...as in they can't give me credit until IUPUC says they can. Isn't that the stupidest fucking thing you've ever heard? I wasn't a very nice person on the phone to the person who gave me that news I can guarantee you. Especially since it took me an hour and a half to find out that no one at IUB could do anything.

I have also been trying to get IUB to accept a course I took at IUPUC as credit since APRIL. Apparently the snag is that some dude is being super lazy and won't make a decision. It's like they forget that I pay them for this.

Oh, and remember all those art course I took at Purdue? Yeah, they are undistributed credit as well. And I might have to do a portfolio review to get them to count. I took these classes at least two years ago. I think I have 3 or 4 drawings left. I swear to all that is Holy if I don't get credit for these classes I will make it my personal goal in life to become a world-famous artist so I can tell everyone that IUB didn't accept my art credit and therefore they had nothing to do with my development as such and I will never allow them to put any of my pieces on display. And that the IUB Fine Art school is run by DAMN DIRTY APES! HA! That'll show 'em not to fuck with Todd Waggoner.

Speaking of IUB,

I'm still coming to grips with the idea that I'll be a student there. After 3 years at Purdue and thinking of it as my school it is so strange to walk around IU and think of IT as my school now. It's like moving to a new house or getting a new car or something. My first week at IU will be completely surreal I'm sure. Like owning a Ford truck for 20 years and then buying a new-model Chevy 1500.

But it will ultimately boil down to the same thing. It's a college and I have to get through it and it will become home for me. Just like a new truck will eventually become an old truck. Or new habits eventually become old habits.

But that first week...everything will seem brighter. I will pause and look at buildings and people and trees like I've never seen anything like them before. I'm planning on carrying a camera with me at all times. Expect photo-journals.

It will be surreal because I'll be so happy.

Like Arthur Dent, I'll be having a good day at school for once. I'll just be missing my Fenchurch. (Not that I have one, as such, but I'm sure that someone out there will be mine.)

_Todd