Smrt

Mom emailed me yesterday to tell me of a letter she received. She thought it was junk mail, and the title line of "congratulations" probably didn't help to show that it wasn't. However, upon reading further, she found it to be a letter from the California Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Apparently I passed my engineering test, weee! I am now allowed to legally be called a Civil Engineer. And I'm in Australia so it doesn't really matter. It does mean that I don't have to take that wretched test again, which was basically the goal.

So, Kane took me out to a nice dinner last night to celebrate and then made me watch tennis the rest of the night. Just kidding, he didn't make me, it was the men's championship match for the Australia Open, so I didn't mind. And I just played mahjong through most of it anyway.

For those of you who aren't avid Simpson's watchers and quoters, the title line is Homer trying to spell "smart". I thought it probably paralleled my performance on the civil engineering test - done poorly but people still knew what it meant - and was hence chosen to title this post.

In other news, it is said by *the powers that be* that our internet subscription is pending and that we may have internet at our apartment by Thursday of this week. Based on previous attempts to initiate peaceful relations with utility companies in the country, I seriously doubt the legitimacy of these claims but will nevertheless remain hopeful of their fulfillment. Who knew it would be so hard to ask someone to hook something up for you which requires no maintainance at all in exchange for a ridiculously high monthly payment? It sounds like a relatively good deal for them, but they still make it difficult. Oh well, we're almost over the hump, say a prayer to the internet gods for us.