Yesterday I started talking really fast which usually is the first sign that I am headed manic.  Well I'm fully manic today... FEELING AWESOME>>> if only I could feel like this all the time.  I feel happy and free and able to conquer the world.  I have so much hope for the future.  It is strange that I am starting to feel this stuff now.  I have been numb for awhile.  I think that is what it is like to be stable but quite frankly since I haven't really ever been stable i wonder if I would be able to identify it if it happened to me!  Thank you all for your prayers...   I just finished my grad school entrance interview for my masters degree in the art of teaching.  Hopefully I'll start this January 1st and it will take up to 18 months - 2 years to have it done with. I won't know for sure until Friday of next week if I'm accepted but I'm really excited... I will tell you though the most important information I don't know when I'll find out.  I have already done my teaching practice in the Bahamas and I might have to do it again here which starts at the beginning of the public school year either August or January and goes until the end of a semester either December or May... It is completely without pay and a fulltime job teaching a classroom supervised for a grade.  It would cost $3k but I would also loose 3 months pay so it would cost even more because of that.  Since I have already done this and have an extensive portfolio and since I have taught for 3 years and have reaceived 3 awards and 2 reference letters from principle and supervisor...  I was told that there was a chance they would use my prior portfolio and I wouldn't have to do another Teaching Practice.  I am hoping that they will give me that credit and I won't have to do that, which would allow me to get my MAT (masters degree in the ARt of Teaching) in 18 months instead of 2 years.  Pray for this it is very important to me!  please...