Exciting News!!!

So much so that I’m writing another post even though the once scheduled for today has already been published!!

For those of you who don’t know, I left uni way back in July/August after having some anxiety/mania/very nearly running away issues.  The whole situation obviously wasn’t working.

So, since then I’ve just been pottering round, doing a bit of knitting, wool cross-stitch, and a recent foray into crochet.  There’s also been a reasonable amount of time on the ol’ Xbox 360.  Since we also got a dishwasher during this time, I’ve been able to stick to a routine of doing housework (much to J’s delight I’m sure).  Who’d thought having a dishwasher would have such a positive flow-on effect.

Anyway, this obviously wasn’t going to be enough to keep me entertained indefinitely.  I’ve known for a while that I want to be a librarian.  The plan had been to finish my degree, then go on to do the post-grad diploma required.  Since that was not going to happen now, I decided to look into changing my major to Humanities, Information and Library Studies.  This isn’t offered at the University of Canterbury.  So I applied to enrol at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, where I’ll be able to complete it via correspondence.  Because this degree is a double major, I won’t be able to cross-credit any of the papers I’ve already done (that’s just the way their system works), but because I already have experience in the humanities area, it means I can get around some of the pre-requisites that are required for certain papers, making it easier to plan what papers I’ll be doing when.  I could have done the single major, but I really wanted to include the humanities/social sciences side of things.  Of course, if J happens to get a job somewhere that isn’t in New Zealand/can’t be done from New Zealand, that’s going to make things a little tricky, but it’s just the way it is for now.  Shouldn’t be an issue in the immediate future.

And this is where I get to the exciting news bit (because that’s the reason you’re here after all).  I got confirmation today that my application has been accepted and I start on 11 November!  (I did get verbal confirmation on Wednesday, but now it’s official.)  Just the one paper at this stage, because that’s all which is on offer in the third trimester for Level 5, and getting back into it slowly is probably a good idea anyway.

It’s all very exciting stuff guys!!

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If you’re reading this anywhere but That Girl, Fae or a feed reader without attribution, it has been STOLEN! Who knew that my stuff was that good? ~ Fae

That Girl, Fae by R Simpson-Large aka Fae Teardrop is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand License.

You Need Only to Follow Yourself

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This is what I need to remember. This is my goal, why I’m still bothering with being a student, what makes it all worth it.

H/T Kate or Die!

I didn’t even know these comics existed until I came across Kate’s post on Tumblr.  It’s definitely being added to my regular reading list.

Original Source: Gavin Aung Than at Zen Pencils

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If you’re reading this anywhere but That Girl, Fae or a feed reader without attribution, it has been STOLEN! Who knew that my stuff was that good? ~ Fae

That Girl, Fae by R Simpson-Large aka Fae Teardrop is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand License.

Still Here

Just don’t have anything to write about at the moment.

I start back at uni in a month, I’m bound to have much to write about then.  Always seems to happen that way.

Oh, J and I have just come back from our honeymoon.  Hoping to scrapbook our mementos over the next couple of weeks, which I will then share with you all (if there is, in fact, anyone still reading).  Haven’t done scrapbooking before.  Quite looking forward to it.

Much loves xx

— Just noticed that my banner to the right over there has decided to break.  I’ll get to fixing that straight away.  Here’s a cute picture of a rat holding a teddy:

The Continuing University Saga

This morning I received an email from uni confirming my change of enrollment.

Initially I thought that meant everything was confirmed and I was no longer part of the university. I read it again. That’s not what it was saying at all!!

The letter confirmed my withdrawal from the first semester papers, and stated that I was still enrolled in the second semester.

I forwarded the email to J, and after discussing it with him, I rang the university registry office.

Yes, I was still enrolled. My backdated withdrawal acceptance cancelled out the exclusion recommendation. The system had only just caught up with itself. If I had talked to someone after receiving my exclusion letter I would have found this out sooner. But because I didn’t, and I had accepted the exclusion, I had stopped going to class. This means that while I am still enrolled, I’m behind in lectures and haven’t been to the compulsory tutorials.

So I will still be withdrawn from the papers for this semester, as per my request. This gives me about seven months to get ‘my shit together,’ if you will, and if things still are not right after then, we have bigger problems. Providing things go well, as I believe they should, I am now able to attend the School of Social Sciences and Humanities again in 2013.

Now I feel like crying, though I can’t tell whether it is due to happiness or sadness… at least everyone is on the same page

A comedy of errors my life may be
At least it’s not a Greek tragedy
No one died