J . M A I L

A tale of two cities

Hi Blog,

This is an update to let everyone know what is going on with Jon. For those that don’t already know I will be moving to Calgary shortly. This situation is this:

I am starting two courses as an open classified student in Jan at U of C with no funding.

If I get my thesis defended and all the paper work submitted by the 22nd of Jan I will switch from open status to full time PhD status (which woud be awesome).

If I do not get all my documents in hand by the 22nd I will have to reapply to the PhD program in Calgary and upon re-acceptance I will be able to transfer my course credits from the winter semester to the full time PhD program. The problem with this option is that re acceptance is not a 100 % certainty and I have to pay and go through the headaches of reapplying.

I submit my thesis to Judi on the 28th of Dec meaning this week is going to be used to finalize everything so that I will be able to defend in early Jan upon Judi’s approval.

So far everything is looking like things will work out in my favor which is great.

No matter what I fly out of Toronto on the 2nd of January. I will not be able to make it to Toronto for my birthday on the 29th of December but if I can be very organized with my packing and shipping and get everything on the greyhound on the 30th or the morning of the 31st of Dec I will try to make it to Toronto for new years. Hopefully someone is having a house party cause new years house parties are more fun than the bar imho.

I will hopefully be back in Jan to defend so I might get a chance to see people but may not get to see anyone as I will be scrambling to get revisions and paper work done.

So that is where I am at. Hope everyone has an awesome holidays. I am sending all of you a great big e-hug as I type.

J