where is the summer going? i feel like it\u2019s slipping away much, much too quickly. last night my brother, david, said he was looking forward to fall. i shuddered. fall is ok, but it always leads to the same thing…WINTER. ugh.<\/p>\n
still no computer. i was able to focus completely, then on re-reading harry p. #5. i\u2019m up to page 480 now, over halfway done. i\u2019m glad i\u2019m reading it again, because it\u2019s good, and i didn\u2019t remember most of it. and i still have #6 to look forward to. because when #6 is gone, what will there be left in life to look forward to???<\/p>\n
i think life is going to be different this fall. i haven\u2019t mentioned it, but i\u2019ve applied to the University of Illinois, Spfld, to their graduate english program. why does writing things on here make them seem more real? i sent in the application in june, and i kept waiting and waiting to hear from them, and finally started calling a few weeks ago, and have been astounded at the apparent lack of interest in actually doing anything at all with the application. they\u2019ve said things to me like “we don\u2019t have a transcript that says you received your B.A.” and “we didn\u2019t receive your G.R.E. scores,” and “we need the transcript from the University of Arizona.”<\/p>\n
granted, my application might have been a little more complicated than most – i went to three different colleges on the way to getting my B.A., but i sent in all the forms, everything, and got increasingly more annoyed by the things they said they hadn\u2019t received. <\/p>\n
it looks like they admit to having everything now, though, and all i need is for the evaluator to do the evaluating. well, and then the evaluator has to send the evaluation to the english department, and then i assume more and more evaluating will take place. <\/p>\n
school starts on august 22nd, and i hope the evaluation process is about over by then.<\/p>\n
i\u2019d like to be a graduate assistant, because my friend erica is one, and she says it would be a really good idea, because you get paid a little AND they cover your tuition. but now i don\u2019t know if it\u2019s years and years too late to do that because they were interviewing people to be G.A.s sometime in the spring, and now god knows when the grad. assist. people will actually receive any of my forms from the other departments.<\/p>\n
i forgot about what a maze of bureaucracy and red tape the college thing can be.<\/p>\n
if all goes as planned and i do start school, i\u2019m looking forward to it. the classes i want to take are at night, and if i somehow got to be a g.a., plus i\u2019ll still be doing massages, i\u2019m suddenly going to be very very busy. i\u2019m not entirely sure how i feel about this. well, i feel a little anxious, because of course change is always anxiety-producing, although the anxiety hasn\u2019t stopped me yet from making changes pretty much all the time. it always feels, though, that i don\u2019t have quite enough time to do everything i want to do, and if i\u2019m even busier…well, we\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n
i\u2019ve decided the classes are going to kind of be like being in a play, when i had rehearsal at night for weeks and weeks.<\/p>\n
except this time i won\u2019t get to dance around doing bad ballet. i do miss “I can\u2019t take it with you,” at least the bad ballet aspect of it.<\/p>\n
the class i\u2019m most excited about is playwriting. when i lived in LA, actually before i even move there, i wrote lots of screenplays, but i started thinking that plays would be better to try, because i\u2019m all about the dialogue, not the action. plus, if i start writing plays, i could actually produce them. <\/p>\n
new possibilities.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m also going to take a class about children\u2019s literature, and that excites me, too, because i continue to love children\u2019s books. ok, here\u2019s something i haven\u2019t confessed to you – sometimes i still read children\u2019s books. some of them are really, really good, funny and creative, and they make me happy. i haven\u2019t run into any other adults who ever read children\u2019s books (except for harry potter, and for some reason it\u2019s perfectly ok to admit to reading them), but i feel i can\u2019t be completely alone on this.<\/p>\n
but maybe so.<\/p>\n
for example, “mrs. piggle wiggle.” i haven\u2019t read any of these books in a few years, but the thought of them makes me smile, because they\u2019re so clever and funny. i read “mr. popper\u2019s penguins” a few years ago in LA, because i heard somebody was writing a screenplay for it. it, too, is a funny book.<\/p>\n
maybe i\u2019ll write plays, maybe i\u2019ll write plays for children, maybe i\u2019ll just read a lot more, it\u2019s hard to say. <\/p>\n
new things ahead, that\u2019s all i know for sure.<\/p>\n
were you in a better mood yesterday? i was, and i realized it was because it wasn\u2019t so stifling hot. plus i was able to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies last night without heating up the house too badly.<\/p>\n
most importantly of all, did you hear that they\u2019re allegedly going to extend daylight savings time? i don\u2019t think it\u2019d take effect for a year, and i\u2019m pretty sure i can\u2019t wait that long, but wouldn\u2019t winter seem less bleak if it just stayed light a little longer? yes it would.<\/p>\n
ok then, everything is good. everything is good.<\/p>\n
grace <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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