happiness!

rewind 2 months... february 16 i passed my oral qualifying exam, and then had 6 days to complete a detailed application for a fellowship i hoped to receive for next year... they said they would announce the national winners on may 1st, so i've been patiently waiting and wondering.... i have a history of applying for big national scholarship type things and getting "honorable mention" but never winning.

when today, april 7, (i.e. 3 weeks before the announcement of winners date), i had a letter from the fellowship organization, i totally expected it to say "sorry, but you've been eliminated, thanks for trying".)... instead, i opened an envelope of this:



how yay is that?

out for a jog... back later