I kind of despise in-between times--like right now, when I'm in between my undergrad and grad schools. I have to make a bunch of decisions, but none of the decisions really have to be made until August. I'm usually so paranoid that something will go wrong that I give myself WAY too much time to plan for things. I'm thinking that I should have just applied to UCF last Fall so that I could be preparing to start school now, not later.

Oh well. At least this leaves me time to write...which is chugging along nicely. I'm trying to build a routine--one in which I wake up at 7:30am and go to bed by midnight. I've been liking daytime recently. Now I have to work on liking my desk. It's horrible, it bears down on my knees. Can a desk be short? It seemed like a normal desk to me when I was in high school.

During my grad school research, I found this really nifty school--Bennington College. They've got a low residency MFA in which you tailor your classes over a two year period to what you want to study. If you want to focus on fiction and publishing one semester, fine. If you want to do poetry and screenwriting the next, perfectly fine. And they have Rick Moody as a teacher. Coolness! Drawback=$11,000 a semester and little chance for financial aid. Who goes to these schools? Definitely not the son of a public school teacher.

Which would be me.

Oh well. University of Texas at Austin is at the top of my list. It's the only school to offer an MFA in Fiction and allow me to continue studying Screenwriting as a minor. Kickass! I'm gonna start praying for that one right now (as well as take the GRE, polish a portfolio, and try to schmooze my way in the door). Austin is also the "live music capitol of the world" (could this be self-proclaimed?), so that's a bonus. Drawback=3 year MFA. But I wouldn't care. They waive tuition. Yeah, it's a good deal all around.