Am I ready for some football? Uh, no. I have enough on my mind right now without having to be reminded in every comedian’s monologue that I’m a Bengals fan, thank you very much.
On another note, I’ve made the initial cut for MFA programmes I want to apply to. This is just a preliminary list, because I still need to wotk this out with my advisor, but for now here’s where I’m hoping to be studying a year from now:
Antioch University Los Angeles
Bowling Green State University
Sarah Lawrence College
Syracuse University
University of Michigan
Failing my ability to get into any MFA programme, I’ll try returning to UT to get an MA in English Literature — UT doesn’t offer any graduate programme in creative writing — or going to Japan on the Jet Programme to teach English to Japanese schoolchildren. If all of that fails, I’ll break my own legs so that the student loan people can’t do that for me as I scrap to find a job with a four-year degree that really doesn’t mean crap.