I couldn't sleep last night.

It might have been because I had fallen asleep at around 8 and then woken up to finish the dishes, but I tossed and turned so much last night. I texted Chris a few minutes before midnight: "I have a feeling tomorrow is the day." And I kept checking my phone - 1 am, 3 am, 5 am - hoping for something from the lady who manages the applications. And nothing.

But when I woke up today (at 7 am, which is extremely early for me when I'm in summer mode), there was an email! Which made me excited for two reasons:

1. I totally called it.
2. I got accepted into GEOMAR's Climate Physics program! 

In retrospect, item 1 is not especially exciting, since I had been told that we should be hearing from the program by the end of this week.  But regardless, this email has finally brought 3 months of graduate-school-related stress to a close. I will be going to graduate school in Germany!

What now? I need to start preparing. There are quite a few things to do:

• I'd love to get my foot fixed before going anywhere with a lot of walking.
• My Texas/North Carolina wardrobe will obviously not work. Kiel is located at 54° N, which runs through Canada and Alaska in the Western Hemisphere (side note: it's far enough north to see the Northern Lights! Brrrrr). So that'll need to be updated, and hopefully before I leave as American clothes are a lot cheaper. 
• I need to book a flight to Germany. One-way flights are expensive so that'll take some trickery.
• I'd like to find a place to live before uni starts.
• I should probably brush up on my German. There are not a lot of English-speaking expats there.
• For the sake of my family, I'll try to annoy them as much as I can over the next two-ish months so that they can get sick of me before I have to leave...
• ...and then say goodbye to everyone.

So basically, no more sitting around watching reruns of Keeping up with the Kardashians for me. Which, you know, is probably a good thing...

Who am I kidding, I'll always have time for trash TV.