Firstly, thanks to all of you for the well wishes and the words of congratulations.

Secondly, as a sort of update, I have received more information since I initially posted. I confirmed that I was, in fact, selected. Again, as I stated in my original post, I was pretty sure, but it's nice to have a real person confirm that vs. receiving some sort of random school enrollment email. I also was cc'd on an email from my assignments officer to another involved party this past week directing them to change my start date to December 2010 instead of June 2011 as the original email had specified. So it looks as though everything will be going as I've been hoping and planning for the past 13-14 months!! We'll be hitting the road right after Thanksgiving!