Today I sat down with the graduate studies adviser for my department and got a very good indication that I'm going to not only be accepted but also allowed to teach and research for the university. That means I'm going to get a nice stipend which I wasn't planning for.

Because of this, my wife told me I can order (in the spring of 2013) my dream bike. I yearn for you Soulcraft groundskeeper SS. You are my sun and moon.

I probably shouldn't have said that last part. Oh well.

If I understand, once I pay for it in January I could be sitting around for a few months until its made and in my hot little hands. What she still doesn't know is that I'm going to plead with Scrod to help me make her her dream bike for her birthday in September. Fun times and I can #craigshift off her Fuji Betsy deathtrap.