Comps (Monday) went as well as could be expected. I'm very unsure of how the take-home part is being graded, in terms of what standards are being applied, so I can't speculate on how well I did that. My in-class portion I feel more confident about; I wrote two essays coming out to six pages in just under two hours. The first was an examination of ( Read more... )

Next Monday, October 17, I take my comprehensive exam for my masters degree. This is one-half of my graduation requirements (the other half is my thesis defense next March-ish). I have the first phase of a syllabus done; I just have to go through and pare it down a bit more and pick specific poems for about half of the poets x.x I have all of the ( Read more... )

(re subject line: It's song lyrics. I don't need to wish for rain when we're getting absurd amounts of it without my intercession ( Read more... )

Things have happened. None of them are hugely life-altering, just finances-altering. Have a bullet list because yes, I'm really that bad at updating these days ( Read more... )

A lot of this has gone on facebook, so anyone who cares probably already knows: I have a new job, working as a cashier at Best Buy. I've been working about a week, still don't have my own register numbers so I'm technically still in training ( Read more... )

I think I had a brilliant idea today regarding my thesis. For those of you who haven't heard me babble about my thesis for hours at a time, here's the concise version: I'm getting my MFA in poetry, which means my thesis is a creative work (in this case, duh, a collection of poetry). Rather than have mine be just a random assortment of my work, I'm ( Read more... )

My store is closing. I should have a job until the end of April. I will have one year left in school at that point, and one summer before I start teaching, so ... say fifteen months. I need to find a job I can handle for fifteen months. One that will work around my school schedule and still leave me time for the things I'm pursuing on my own - I do ( Read more... )

Homework for the first week of school: 91 page reading assignment, 3-5 page essay, 3ish page other essay/meditation/ramble about my poetics, draft of a new poem. Yeah, I can totally do that (hint: no I cannot. WTF kind of assignment schedule is this ( Read more... )

Remaining in this semester ( Read more... )

I went and talked to my adviser yesterday before my poetry workshop. I went into this meeting knowing I have only 4 required classes left and three semesters to take them (and of course my thesis hours, but I'm not counting those). I had chosen the poetry workshop (with Kay, the teacher I like, hooray) and picked out two other courses I was ( Read more... )