Your lonely voice cries across the starlit coast

[raybear]

Yesterday was sort of awkward and weird, for various reasons, but today is a new day, and so far, so good.

I love that I can sit at home all day, half of it on the computer, and never update. But right now I'm updating while standing at a computer terminal in the engineering library. I'm killing a few minutes waiting for a copier to be done. In lieu of an actual entry, I will present for your Friday pleasure, a poll!


[Poll #351637]

Comments

Re: so long, i had to break it up

[jediknight11.livejournal.com]

thanks, raybear. i was definitely at the wrong hippie school. ^_^

my friends and i often wondered if our experiences were common across the board for English grad programs, what our experiences would have been had we chosen different schools. most of them had planned to go on for the phd, which i'd also considered myself, but were fed up w/ the hoops we were expected to jump through:

**here, little grad student...come on, that's a good grad student...now, tell me--who was the first writer?...oh, i know you know the answer, little grad student. don't you want a good grade? who wants a good grade?**

i shit you not. we were asked that question. the prof's answer? Moses. i still don't get it. he wrote down the Ten Commandments, but who taught him to read and write? oh, well. guess i'm just a dumb MFA. :p

none of it matters now, i guess. at least we're still friends. that's more important than a piece of paper.

i considered the different MFA options when i was applying. a low-res would have been nice, esp. bc i didn't want to leave Chicago, but it wouldn't have worked bc of the money and bc i wouldn't get to teach.

thanks again, for the encouragement. and don't be a stranger to bloggo chicago (http://bloggochicago.blogs.com/). it's where most of my writing occurs these days.

so i'll leave you with this--stay away from Jewel's ground beef--they found a batch w/ E. coli.

cheers.