Tick, tick, tick, tick on the watch, and life's too short for me to stop.
1) Normally, I like to set out my new year's resolutions on the 31st. I only managed a brief plan, the major one of which related to reading.
I ended up looking at my rather daunting 'to read' list. I ended up paring it down a significant amount, even after adding some of the recommendations you were all so kind as to give me as well as a couple books I received as gifts. So, I have 32 books on my list now. 4 of them are compilations/collected works/etc., so I don't know if those particularly count here. I suppose that means it's really only 29. I finished two of those books thanks to the nice long bus ride back from the coast. So, really, technically 27 now. I guess.
I am therefore setting a goal of getting through the entirety of my list this year, as well as chipping away at the anthology type ones bit by bit. I don't think this will prove particularly difficult, but we'll see. Life has a way of throwing curve-balls, and I have a tendency to spend far too much time browsing books on Amazon and the Kobo website.
2) The graduate program applications have opened up. I have until the end of March to get my stuff in: a CV, a statement of intent, and undergrad transcripts. I'm both excited and nervous about this. I'm sitting here on the precipice of the decision, wondering if I really can commit to sparkle motion (as it were). This second-guessing of myself is a bad habit that I truly need to break.
The way the program works is that you do one course per semester: summer semester, autumn semester, winter semester, and spring semester. I think I can handle that. The first course is summer semester, and starts in July. I think I can do that. It'll give me a sense of the intensity of the program. I can drop the whole thing if I need to. Nothing says I can't at least give it a try. And you know what? Even if I get accepted in the first place, I don't have to actually go through with it in the first place. So perhaps I'm not second-guessing myself as much as I thought I was.
The only thing I'm worried about is writing a statement of intent. I'm going to chat with some of my fellow staff members -- particularly those who have Masters degrees and who were the ones who encouraged me to go for it in the first place -- and see what advice they can offer in terms of how to write one properly.
3) I am going to go make some breakfast and watch "Pitch Perfect" now. Because of reasons. By which I mean HELL YEAH I've finished my lesson planning for Monday Rebel Wilson is amazing and I love her, and it is an awesome movie besides.
I ended up looking at my rather daunting 'to read' list. I ended up paring it down a significant amount, even after adding some of the recommendations you were all so kind as to give me as well as a couple books I received as gifts. So, I have 32 books on my list now. 4 of them are compilations/collected works/etc., so I don't know if those particularly count here. I suppose that means it's really only 29. I finished two of those books thanks to the nice long bus ride back from the coast. So, really, technically 27 now. I guess.
I am therefore setting a goal of getting through the entirety of my list this year, as well as chipping away at the anthology type ones bit by bit. I don't think this will prove particularly difficult, but we'll see. Life has a way of throwing curve-balls, and I have a tendency to spend far too much time browsing books on Amazon and the Kobo website.
2) The graduate program applications have opened up. I have until the end of March to get my stuff in: a CV, a statement of intent, and undergrad transcripts. I'm both excited and nervous about this. I'm sitting here on the precipice of the decision, wondering if I really can commit to sparkle motion (as it were). This second-guessing of myself is a bad habit that I truly need to break.
The way the program works is that you do one course per semester: summer semester, autumn semester, winter semester, and spring semester. I think I can handle that. The first course is summer semester, and starts in July. I think I can do that. It'll give me a sense of the intensity of the program. I can drop the whole thing if I need to. Nothing says I can't at least give it a try. And you know what? Even if I get accepted in the first place, I don't have to actually go through with it in the first place. So perhaps I'm not second-guessing myself as much as I thought I was.
The only thing I'm worried about is writing a statement of intent. I'm going to chat with some of my fellow staff members -- particularly those who have Masters degrees and who were the ones who encouraged me to go for it in the first place -- and see what advice they can offer in terms of how to write one properly.
3) I am going to go make some breakfast and watch "Pitch Perfect" now. Because of reasons. By which I mean HELL YEAH I've finished my lesson planning for Monday Rebel Wilson is amazing and I love her, and it is an awesome movie besides.