We Learned Chinese on Tuesday

As part of my effort to stave of boredom in my final weeks at work, I tend to browse the web for various things that tickle my fancy at any given time. This past week, I was reading through some on-line Chinese lessons. As I was doing so I thought: "It's Tuesday today. Huh."

That is all.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Interesting Times - Piled Higher and Deeper

So, it's been an interesting week. More precisely, I've had two interesting Tuesdays in a row. Firstly, last Tuesday, was my anual performance review at work, which was somewhat unexpected. I say "somewhat" because it's that time of year so I knew it would be happening sooner or later, but when it happened it was more or less a "surprise! You've got a performance review in an hour!" sort of thing. Whatever. It was fairly painless and they decided to toss some more money at me (not literally).

What made last Tuesday more interesting, however, was that later that evening, I got an e-mail from one of the graphics professors at UW (University of Waterloo) inquiring about my PhD application and if I was still interested. Of course, I replied that I was, and I presumed that, since the prof had taken the trouble to contact me, there was a decent chance of getting an acceptance.

Well, this afternoon, being the following Tuesday, I received my acceptance letter from the department. So it appears that I will by starting my PhD (read: piling it higher and deeper) in January. Not exactly the normal time to start, but that's what worked out, and I'm not really complaining.

The somewhat ironic thing, is that I'll be taking a pretty hefty pay cut from my current salary, but then, if it was about the money, I wouldn't have applied in the first place.

Freak Out,
-TFitC