Can't figure out the difference between better or worse

I've not been checking my mail. There's never anything interesting... and I have to go all the way downtown to the post office for it (downtown is downtown... it's faaar). I finally got my mail today, and among all the bills that have already been paid (I insist on getting paper copies mailed to me, but then I always check the balance for everything online or by phone and pay for it... which makes it so that I don't have to open the envelops when they arrive... which is how I managed to have two sets of a credit card sent to me that I did not activate, with the result that I now have an expired mastercard. I suspect this is what happened with the Amex as well... but really... who needs anything aside from visa?)

Anyway... I got the first bit of news for this MPA thing. I've already signed up for my courses... public sector governance, public sector economics, and writing in the public sector. As it turns out, this non-credit writing course is not going to be painful... it's some sort of a writing exercise that I have to submit, and then they give me feedback on what I need to work on... and then it's considered "completed"... this is good news... except that it has to be done in August... and here I was thinking that I have the rest of the month to wholly dedicate to the HSH...

And there's even bigger news in that envelop... as it turns out, they suggest that I complete a refresher course on algebra. Woh. I haven't had a math class since grade 12, and I had stopped paying attention six years before even that. Algebra? For what? Economics?

And economics... it's been ten years since I've taken an economics class... and I don't remember it being very much fun back then, either. (though later on, the UBC arts advisor let me use that macroeconomics course as my math requirement... but then he also let me use my computing science course as my science requirement... I guess they didn't much care, do they?)

Blargh. I had wanted to be thinking only about surfing this month.

Cox Bay was okay tonight... a few good rides... but most of it had me feeling like I was taking off into a shopping mall.