Surviving

Hey readers, I'm sorry I've been out of commission for a couple of weeks. Over the reading break I got a nasty flu and spent three days hovering around my bed with a fever. That turned into a chest cold, which I still have, and I've been working on trying to get healthy, but it seems as though this cough is here to stay! It's made it difficult for me to get motivated on my assignments.

I'm at that point in the semestre when I don't have anything immediate due, but I know I have four research papers, and a presentation due in two weeks, and then exams will be following that. It's a big dark cloud of late nights looming on the horizon!

On top of that are the graduation concerns, but I'm trying not to think about them too too much. I've my grad photo appointment this week, and I've got my applications done for my next wave of schooling. I guess I still need to get to the bookstore and order my paraphernalia. I feel like its a big grad class this year. Many of the students I've been with all the way through are graduating at the same time. At least there will be a lot of English students graduating. I think many them are going into Education like I am haha. But that's the joke, isn't it? Like what else are we supposed to do with an English degree?

A couple weeks ago my dad asked me what I would do if I won the lottery or otherwise became independently wealthy (I don't buy lottery tickets). I decided that I would forget about going into Education, and continue straight into an MFA program somewhere. Maybe do a few MFAs haha. I would dedicate my life to writing poetry. That's an artist's dream isn't it?

If you were independently wealthy what would you do? Maybe you have more luxurious dreams that continuing in academics like me.