19 August 2007
I'm Okay, Really...
19/08/07 22:48 Permalink
Hello all.
Recently, I've been the recipient of a lot of concern and correspondence from people who wonder where I am and how I'm doing. The answer is that I'm still in France, happy and healthy, and will be in New Jersey on the 1st of September. I head out for a residency in Montana in October and will be studying for my GREs from September on for a Ph.D. in English with a creative dissertation in which I hope to enroll come this time next year should I be accepted. Right now, that's where I am.
I know that I've been terrible about staying in contact, when I hope that my time here would allow me to do just that. However, the truth is that in addition to writing, I've been using my retreat time to plan and to plot my immediate future. A lot of the energy that would have been directed at maintaining my correspondence has sadly been spent on applications, grant-writing and generally worrying about my state of penury and what that will mean once I return to the States. I'm good, however, I've just had a lot of things in front of me and on my mind.
Also, I've been in such beautiful and sedentary surroundings for so long, I've found that I begin to forget that there's a world outside. Things slip that ought not and of those I will be mindful.
Be snazzy and take care.
Recently, I've been the recipient of a lot of concern and correspondence from people who wonder where I am and how I'm doing. The answer is that I'm still in France, happy and healthy, and will be in New Jersey on the 1st of September. I head out for a residency in Montana in October and will be studying for my GREs from September on for a Ph.D. in English with a creative dissertation in which I hope to enroll come this time next year should I be accepted. Right now, that's where I am.
I know that I've been terrible about staying in contact, when I hope that my time here would allow me to do just that. However, the truth is that in addition to writing, I've been using my retreat time to plan and to plot my immediate future. A lot of the energy that would have been directed at maintaining my correspondence has sadly been spent on applications, grant-writing and generally worrying about my state of penury and what that will mean once I return to the States. I'm good, however, I've just had a lot of things in front of me and on my mind.
Also, I've been in such beautiful and sedentary surroundings for so long, I've found that I begin to forget that there's a world outside. Things slip that ought not and of those I will be mindful.
Be snazzy and take care.
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