I was hoping to have my provisional license by November (-ish), but with this new law they've passed, everyone's gone from having to have their permit for at least 6 months to having to have it for a year, so now I gotta wait till May '11 to get my provisional =(... But better late than never, right? =) (Also, if you have your permit or provisional, you have to put red decals on your license plate AND you can't even use hands-free devices!)