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Wow, what a response to my earlier post. thanks to everyone who sent emails and posted and such. much obliged.

i have some news - i'm going to be a university graduate in 3 weeks. it's only taken me 12 years. i was a bit dismayed to find that the school doesn't recognize the incredible effort i must have put in over those twelve glorious years because all it says on the degree is 3 Year BA. Three year BA? that's an insult! ah well, it will still feel great to get it. perhaps i'll enjoy it even more because i had to go back to get it. the feeling that one gets, if one is prone to thinking of oneself as being WELL over average intelligence, when one walks into a room full of 17 and 18 year olds at 30 years of age to study first year english after having been a professional writer for 5 years was somewhat humbling. but i like to think that i have the maturity level of a 12 year old, and if i had thought it wouldnt' have hurt my grades to fart out loud, i would have done so to get a laugh (as i've said before, farting is always funny - it's the one thing that a 70 year old and a 7 year old still laugh at). but it worked out, and my intelligence (or claim to it) took much solace in my marks.

i had started out in university, like most people, unsure of where i wanted to go. I got an A in economics so they invited me to join their faculty in a really nice official letter. Despite my father being a professor, i didn't understand that if I joined the faculty i would then be on track to complete an Economics degree, and so i happily joined what i thought was a beer drinking club of adults who found all the cheap pubs and imported drinks on sale. Alas, that was not the case. So i eventually dropped out and ran to BC with my current fiancee to write the next great canadian novel, but when i got there i picked up a copy of Douglas Coupland's latest novel and found out that it had already been written.

when i returned to school, i enrolled in film, and proceeded on THAT course, but then, all of my friends were leaving school, and without having completed the degree, I left too. All i needed was 1.5 classes for the economics degree, and 2.5 (half a year) for the film. So what do i do when i want to complete the degree? go for english, which i need 5 (a full year) to complete.

Anyway, a long stage that is soon a part of history, and i can look forward to teachers college next year. that's the idea anyway. I'll be spending the next year writing and looking for work - any work - not necessarily writing (although i'll still be writing for chatelaine.com as a relationship columnist in the wise guys section (i'm patrick decker, the brother, no that's not my photo, yes, it looks like a used car salesman), so if anyone knows of anyone looking for people to work for them, drop a line.

my essay that i've been writing is about to crash, so i'm going to knock this off. i was going to include some pics of some things (calm down ladies!) but will have to wait until i'm trying my best not to work - which will probably be tomorrow.