Prematurely looking up residency requirements today, I found the university definition of Georgia residency:

An independent student must reside in Georgia at least 12 months during which time there is no full-time enrollment in an institution of higher education and there is proof that the primary purpose for being in Georgia is other than for an education.

But I could scoot by on this:

Institutions may waive out-of-state tuition for the following: [...] 4) nonresident graduate students who hold teaching or research assistantships requiring at least one-third time service at such institution;

That is, I could scoot if I hadn't been poking around in the department's website, trying to find any clue as to when I'd hear back from them, and found a secret, somewhat-hidden FAQ, which states:

"You will need to place your request for an assistantship in writing and submit it with your application materials."

It also has an admission requirement that I didn't find anywhere else, but that I kind of fufilled and is the FAQ for last year, giving a deadline of Feb 1, 2004. But I definitely didn't know about the assistantship request. When If I get in, I should be able to find one by second semester; I'm hoping to be a Calculus assistant. I'd walk in the first day with a skirt, little tank top, ponytail and glasses, and tell the mostly-male class, "I love Calculus, it exites me. Let's talk about math!" in much the same way that the cutest math professor ever, Dr. Evans, says that when she's sad, she does math. But without the cuteness because, let's face it, sex sells. And math is sexy.