posted 2004/01/05 at 21:45
Mark flew back to England today to take care of selling his house and getting the rest of his stuff to bring over here. I knew this was going to happen, but nobody bothered to tell me it was today until after he left. I swear, for as close as we are as a family, no one here ever bothers to tell me squat ...
For those of you scoring at home (if not, try flowers), my application to Indiana University went out today, along with my first poetry submissions in a long time. I'd been waiting on this one magazine to get back to me, and I didn't realize I'd waited three whole months after their usual "we'll get back to you" date. So hopefully I can start getting that taken care of, plus I'll be picking up one of the Market books for fiction later this week so I can start getting my short stories out there. Given that most MFA applicants aren't even published before they start applying, though, I think I've got a leg up there. Now it's only a question of whether or not my portfolio's good enough to get me in the door anywhere, and whether or not the GPA and GREs will get me a nice mountain of scholarship money.
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