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so livejournal miraculously works again but now i don't know how to get back into the swing of things.
a few points:
• i'm moving back to the states by january 24. i'm in the middle of applying to graduate schools. two schools in boston and two schools in new york. i'm working towards an MFA in creative writing. deciding on this was really an internal battle between "this is my dream" and "this is not practical" and in the end, my dream was victorious.
• studying for the impending GREs makes me feel like standardized testing is really just a modern form of torture. i'm a writer. i know words are important. but when will i ever use words like "bedizen" or "yeoman" in my entire life? never, that's when.
• i've been teaching a creative writing course at the ESL school i work for. i created the curriculum myself, painstakingly chose every poem to analyze in class, and thought up writing exercises for each class. the students are very responsive to it. they just get it. when they read a piece of writing, they see things that i could only see after reading it two or three times. when they write, they're not clouded by the cliche bullshit that hinders native english speakers. they take the language in its purest form and use it in ways that a native speaker would never think of using it. it's shocking and inspiring.
• i was watching nip/tuck nonstop for about 3 weeks but then realized that it just makes me really fucking depressed. everybody is a shithead and just when you think things couldn't be any more effed, somebody has sex with an iguana or something. so now i'm just watching project runway episodes that i've missed. it makes me feel much better emotionally, even though i find some of the people to be nails-on-a-chalkboard unbearable.
• it's starting to get really cold. i need to figure out a cure for hat-hair.
a few points:
• i'm moving back to the states by january 24. i'm in the middle of applying to graduate schools. two schools in boston and two schools in new york. i'm working towards an MFA in creative writing. deciding on this was really an internal battle between "this is my dream" and "this is not practical" and in the end, my dream was victorious.
• studying for the impending GREs makes me feel like standardized testing is really just a modern form of torture. i'm a writer. i know words are important. but when will i ever use words like "bedizen" or "yeoman" in my entire life? never, that's when.
• i've been teaching a creative writing course at the ESL school i work for. i created the curriculum myself, painstakingly chose every poem to analyze in class, and thought up writing exercises for each class. the students are very responsive to it. they just get it. when they read a piece of writing, they see things that i could only see after reading it two or three times. when they write, they're not clouded by the cliche bullshit that hinders native english speakers. they take the language in its purest form and use it in ways that a native speaker would never think of using it. it's shocking and inspiring.
• i was watching nip/tuck nonstop for about 3 weeks but then realized that it just makes me really fucking depressed. everybody is a shithead and just when you think things couldn't be any more effed, somebody has sex with an iguana or something. so now i'm just watching project runway episodes that i've missed. it makes me feel much better emotionally, even though i find some of the people to be nails-on-a-chalkboard unbearable.
• it's starting to get really cold. i need to figure out a cure for hat-hair.