i still exist???
I haven't updated since around my birthday, I know. My life has been a big mess, and I didn't quite feel up to documenting it via livejournal for all the world to see. But for some reason I'm here today and I'm updating for the first time in over six months. So what's been going on with me that I actually feel like writing about? Nothing that everyone doesn't know already, but now you get to read about it as well as hear about it over the phone.
I adopted some kitties! The first came home on February 18th. His name is Oskar, and he was one and a half at the time (now he is a few weeks away from him second birthday) and is a cute little orange and white boy. Marmalade, the kitten, came home June 25th. He was just about to turn three months old at the time, and today is his four-month birthday. He is also orange and white and looks like a babyoskar. I had wanted a second kitty primarily because I know I'm going to be really busy next year, and I thought it would be nice for Oskar to have a friend to play with when I can't be around as much as I currently am. Oskar is sweet and friendly and affectionate. He loves to sit in people's laps (although not as much now that's it's summer and hot out... he'd rather sit on cool surfaces like tile or the tabletop). He can be a just the teeniest bit shy at first... he is usually cautiously curious around new people, but it's not like he hides and ignores everyone. And he's playful and loves catnip. He's just an all-around great kitty. Marmalade is very much a kitten. He's little and adorable, but he's also pesky and into everything. He's curious about absolutely everything, and anything in his line of sight is a potential cat toy. He's completely trusting of new people and situations and doesn't seem to have a fear of anything. Once he grows out of his nutty kitten phase he'll be easier to handle. Once Oskar adjusted to having a new kitty in the house (he was terrified at first and there was lots of hissing), the two were fine together and play-wrestle and chase each other a lot. They're my two special little kitties and they are spoiled. :P
I am also definitely going to BU for my long-awaited playwriting MFA this coming year. I'll be moving back to Somerville in the coming weeks and starting classes at the beginning of September. It's really scary and overwhelming... especially because I am attempting to keep my job full-time while I take classes. It's the only way I'll know I'll have a steady income during school and a definite job after I finish the program. I'm going to keep working from home and have flexible all-over-the-place hours. I'm planning to take just the two writing workshops in the fall and two in the spring (normal courseload is four each semester) and then do two of the electives in summer session 1 and the third in summer session 2 (the fourth and final elective is my course I took at UMass this fall that will transfer in). I also have to put in 50 hours per semester working in the Boston Playwright's Theatre. But I should be done by the end of next August. Like I said, it's really scary and overwhelming, and I hope I can handle it.
I've been emailing a girl who's heading to BU for poetry... I found her online on the MFA blog I'd been reading. So it will be nice to know someone heading into it, even though we won't have any classes together. She's going to be TA-ing an undergrad creative writing class, which is cool. At first they had told me that they weren't sure if they could offer me aid, but a week or two after I heard that, they called me and said some aid had opened up. I ended up with a scholarship for half-tuition and a small ($2000) stipend. That was what had finally gotten me to definitely sign onto the program. Since I'm taking the electives in the summer, I'll save a lot on the courses I have to pay for because summer courses are close to half-price. I just hope I can handle everything and won't have to stop working.
I guess that is about it for now. I'll try to update more regularly again. Right now is lots of anxiety because I'm preparing to move and start this whole scary program. So if I write again there will probably be lots of worry. I guess that's normal for me though. I will try to update here and there during grad school, but I will be really busy. I still have to get an entire rough draft churned out and ready to go for when classes start. I'm really nervous.
I adopted some kitties! The first came home on February 18th. His name is Oskar, and he was one and a half at the time (now he is a few weeks away from him second birthday) and is a cute little orange and white boy. Marmalade, the kitten, came home June 25th. He was just about to turn three months old at the time, and today is his four-month birthday. He is also orange and white and looks like a babyoskar. I had wanted a second kitty primarily because I know I'm going to be really busy next year, and I thought it would be nice for Oskar to have a friend to play with when I can't be around as much as I currently am. Oskar is sweet and friendly and affectionate. He loves to sit in people's laps (although not as much now that's it's summer and hot out... he'd rather sit on cool surfaces like tile or the tabletop). He can be a just the teeniest bit shy at first... he is usually cautiously curious around new people, but it's not like he hides and ignores everyone. And he's playful and loves catnip. He's just an all-around great kitty. Marmalade is very much a kitten. He's little and adorable, but he's also pesky and into everything. He's curious about absolutely everything, and anything in his line of sight is a potential cat toy. He's completely trusting of new people and situations and doesn't seem to have a fear of anything. Once he grows out of his nutty kitten phase he'll be easier to handle. Once Oskar adjusted to having a new kitty in the house (he was terrified at first and there was lots of hissing), the two were fine together and play-wrestle and chase each other a lot. They're my two special little kitties and they are spoiled. :P
I am also definitely going to BU for my long-awaited playwriting MFA this coming year. I'll be moving back to Somerville in the coming weeks and starting classes at the beginning of September. It's really scary and overwhelming... especially because I am attempting to keep my job full-time while I take classes. It's the only way I'll know I'll have a steady income during school and a definite job after I finish the program. I'm going to keep working from home and have flexible all-over-the-place hours. I'm planning to take just the two writing workshops in the fall and two in the spring (normal courseload is four each semester) and then do two of the electives in summer session 1 and the third in summer session 2 (the fourth and final elective is my course I took at UMass this fall that will transfer in). I also have to put in 50 hours per semester working in the Boston Playwright's Theatre. But I should be done by the end of next August. Like I said, it's really scary and overwhelming, and I hope I can handle it.
I've been emailing a girl who's heading to BU for poetry... I found her online on the MFA blog I'd been reading. So it will be nice to know someone heading into it, even though we won't have any classes together. She's going to be TA-ing an undergrad creative writing class, which is cool. At first they had told me that they weren't sure if they could offer me aid, but a week or two after I heard that, they called me and said some aid had opened up. I ended up with a scholarship for half-tuition and a small ($2000) stipend. That was what had finally gotten me to definitely sign onto the program. Since I'm taking the electives in the summer, I'll save a lot on the courses I have to pay for because summer courses are close to half-price. I just hope I can handle everything and won't have to stop working.
I guess that is about it for now. I'll try to update more regularly again. Right now is lots of anxiety because I'm preparing to move and start this whole scary program. So if I write again there will probably be lots of worry. I guess that's normal for me though. I will try to update here and there during grad school, but I will be really busy. I still have to get an entire rough draft churned out and ready to go for when classes start. I'm really nervous.