Well, I’m admitted into graduate school. Since ETS still hasn’t filed my GRE scores yet with UAH, I’ve enrolled as a non-degree student; I’ll re-enroll as a degree-seeking student sometime later in the fall. [It was the fastest way to get me in.] Doing the non-degree route required someone from the department to sign off on my classes, and when I went to go to Dr. Utley’s office, there was a fun exchange:

Dr. Utley [not recognizing me]: “Can I help you?”

“Yes, I’m Geof Morris. The Dean’s office called …”

“Oh, yes.” [pause] “Wait, don’t I know you? You were in Bob [Frederick]’s class, weren’t you?”

[sly smile] “Yes, ma’am.”

“Okay. Let me look at this.” [quick scan] “You don’t want to take those two classes together. I think you should just take one class this term.”

[Stifles urge to invoke the name of Dr. Benfield, who said, "Oh, please. You can kill those two classes together in your sleep."] “Oh, okay. Which should I take?”

“Either one will be fine. 660 is what we start most students with.”

“Fine by me.”

“Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone take 690 with anything else.”

I started to interject, but the words out of my mouth would have been, “Oh, c’mon, Dr. Utley. It’s Dr. Gholston. I had him for 390″—the undergraduate counterpart to this course—”and even though I only attended half of the lectures, I aced the class.” I decided that, since she was doing me the favor, I should just shut up. Instead, I said, “I’ll definitely take your advice on that score.”

So yes, Ant-Dawg … Geofro and Opie will be re-united. Hehheheeheheheheh. [Hey, wait ... we never did take the same class as undergraduates, did we? How the hell did we manage to do that? We were both undergraduates for half of forever. It's amazing ... we went to the same school and worked at the same company [for a little while, anyway], and … we never saw each other in either place in an official capacity.]