I'm in (for real) !!

I must say, I got the most wonderful e-mail this morning:

Dear Sapana,

Thank you for your application to study at King's College London for the
Spring 2006 Semester. I am delighted to inform you that you have been
accepted as an Exchange student within the Departments of English and
War studies for the following courses:

Contemporary Security Issues
Sociolinguistics
Court Cultures on the Age of Elizabeth I
1st World War Literature

Is there any better way to start the day? 11 days of waiting and wondering have finally come to a close and I can rest easy...for maybe a day or so. Now preparations really need to kick into high gear because it's already the last day of October and I'm planning on leaving right after exams. Eek! But hey, that's what Thanksgiving break is for. If any of you have advice on traveling/living in London, I would love to hear it. Anyway, I thought I'd share the good news before heading back to more pressing business, i.e. an essay on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (which, although quite an interesting poem, is terribly complex and deep and confusing: characteristics which make writing intelligently about it understandably difficult. But alas, such are the toils of an English major. "And I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; / I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Isn't that marvelous? There is just something so ominous and mysterious about those lines, a sort of prophetic warning touched with a sense of horror...) Yes, so back to the paper. Cheers!