A Shorthand Update
I keep telling myself that I'll update this more frequently, but it never seems to happen. I'm just too busy. But, to get you up to date:
1) Signed a lease on a new apartment at Post Lindbergh in Buckhead last week. I move the first week of December. The feeling of liberation-- from 11th Street, from Midtown, from Jeff Mayo, from 15 Months of sheer hell-- from everything associated with this apartment-- I got when I signed that lease is beyond description. I'll have a washer/dryer, a dishwasher, a balcony, swimming pool, tennis court, gym-- it goes on and on. After 3.5 years in Atlanta, it's about fucking time I live in a nice apartment.
2) School is busy as ever. Submitted a paper proposal to a writing and rhetoric conference in Houston in April. There is quite a story that goes along with this particular submission process, but I'll forward you to my Xanga for details.
3) I've registered for my Spring 2007 classes: Milton, Middle English Language, and Early American Literature and Culture. Each of these seminars is very difficult. However, I think I'm ready for the workload. I will finish my coursework for my M.A. by Fall 2007-- even if I don't take a summer class. That way I will be able to devote Spring 2008 exclusively to my thesis and figuring out how to get my teaching certification (in Georgia? Texas? Haven't decided).
4) Family is doing fairly well. Dad had a big nose surgery for a triple deviated septum recently. He says that the result wasn't worth missing work for two days. My mother will retire from teaching at the end of Spring 2008. Fitting-- just a few months before I'll start my career in the public school system. My cousin is struggling with liver cancer, but we are all trying to remain optimistic. Not much else going on. Oh, half of my family moved to Itlay.
5) Personal life? What personal life? I have few friends left. It was to be expected, I guess. Ben no longer talks to me, and has once again turned to alcohol and drugs. I miss my best friend, but there's nothing I can do. He's an adult, and he has to make his own choices. Other friends have faded into their own lives. It's for the better. Lately I've been questioning many of the lifestyle choices I made 5 or 6 years ago. It's too late to go back and change all of that, but I can't honestly say that I don't regret jumping to hasty conclusions.
Okay. I think that's about it.
I'll try to update again at some point.
1) Signed a lease on a new apartment at Post Lindbergh in Buckhead last week. I move the first week of December. The feeling of liberation-- from 11th Street, from Midtown, from Jeff Mayo, from 15 Months of sheer hell-- from everything associated with this apartment-- I got when I signed that lease is beyond description. I'll have a washer/dryer, a dishwasher, a balcony, swimming pool, tennis court, gym-- it goes on and on. After 3.5 years in Atlanta, it's about fucking time I live in a nice apartment.
2) School is busy as ever. Submitted a paper proposal to a writing and rhetoric conference in Houston in April. There is quite a story that goes along with this particular submission process, but I'll forward you to my Xanga for details.
3) I've registered for my Spring 2007 classes: Milton, Middle English Language, and Early American Literature and Culture. Each of these seminars is very difficult. However, I think I'm ready for the workload. I will finish my coursework for my M.A. by Fall 2007-- even if I don't take a summer class. That way I will be able to devote Spring 2008 exclusively to my thesis and figuring out how to get my teaching certification (in Georgia? Texas? Haven't decided).
4) Family is doing fairly well. Dad had a big nose surgery for a triple deviated septum recently. He says that the result wasn't worth missing work for two days. My mother will retire from teaching at the end of Spring 2008. Fitting-- just a few months before I'll start my career in the public school system. My cousin is struggling with liver cancer, but we are all trying to remain optimistic. Not much else going on. Oh, half of my family moved to Itlay.
5) Personal life? What personal life? I have few friends left. It was to be expected, I guess. Ben no longer talks to me, and has once again turned to alcohol and drugs. I miss my best friend, but there's nothing I can do. He's an adult, and he has to make his own choices. Other friends have faded into their own lives. It's for the better. Lately I've been questioning many of the lifestyle choices I made 5 or 6 years ago. It's too late to go back and change all of that, but I can't honestly say that I don't regret jumping to hasty conclusions.
Okay. I think that's about it.
I'll try to update again at some point.