In My Dreams, I Can Credit Calligraphy Papers To A Degree

I often feel like my life, both waking and sleeping, is plagued by unnecessary perils. Recently my dreams have ranged from repeatedly beating an elderly man over the head with a chair until he was dead, then having Bart Bass from Gossip Girl finish him off by hurling a bottle of expensive whiskey in his general direction. You can imagine my unsettled feeling upon waking (well, actually, you're forgiven if you don't because I just don't think a large number of people have those kinds of dreams). A few nights later, I dreamt that Sophie got a starring role on that amazing show, Jersey Shore. You have no idea how much I wish that one was true.

And now, due to recent turmoil over which papers I should study next semester at the University of Otago (well, to be fair, I've already chosen them and they are Maths, Physics, Geophysics and Chemistry): last night I had a dream in which I could study Calligraphy and credit it to a degree. Do you have any idea how utterly ridiculous that sounds? Calligraphy. I could spend a semester writing in Old English text and at the end of it, have 18 points of point-y goodness that would be credited towards an undergraduate degree of my choosing. I don't even know what I would write, maybe the alphabet or maybe just my name. I think I can attribute my dream to the fact that I love love love typography. You probably know this, because I make reference to it often, but I love fonts - particularly The Maple Origins. Imagine then, being able to credit a paper about fonts to my degree.

When I woke up this morning, I actually reached for this very computer to check the course prescription on the Otago site. Don't you just LOVE when your dreams are THAT convincing? well, until you come to the painful realisation that it was a dream, and there's actually no way writing in fancy script will contribute to your degree now. You might like to try submitting lab reports using The Maple Origins, but if anything you would probably lose marks, because lab reports are to be submitted strictly in size 12 Times New Roman (which I hate), or Arial (which I am a little bit more than partial too).

Sigh.

I think I'm going to submit a petition for a Calligraphy paper at the University of Otago.