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Doug and I got some very good news last night. We've been awarded NSF Cyber-Service grants (a $20,000 raise over my last job [unemployed]). I get this strange feeling that the awards committee was waiting on me to announce the decisions. One of the administrative assistants for the program was emailing me almost every day if I got accepted yet. I found out yesterday that the decision had been made regarding my admission to Syracuse, but I would have to wait for the official letter to learn what it was. Yesterday the decisions/announcements for the Cyber-Service grants were also made. Coincidence? Maybe not! Well, I can only assume that I got accepted to the University, too (and why not? I graduated cum laude with a "Outstanding Achievement in CS" award).

Even if it's not true, I'll delude myself and make myself feel better by pretending that that is how it is. I have been extremely self-deprecating lately after the whole miserable German university experience. I need a little ego boost to make me back into the arrogant, pompous arsehole that we all know and love.

So Doug and I are fellows, working in the same program, sharing a lot of the same political/privacy/computational views. I'm a bit more technical, he's a bit more policy. We're both f'ing geniuses. No kidding. So I think the program will be a good thing, hella fun, and it will save my ass from debt, boredom, and lunacy.