Today I started, in earnest, to study for the GRE. I plan to take it in one month. I have decided to embrace my destiny, which is to be the type of person who cannot function outside of academia. I will retreat to a small New England campus, where no one looks at you funny if you wear three cardigans on top of each other or have a variety of scabs and dead skin on your face. I will read books and write books and feel alternately smug and self-effacing. Bells will chime, a cold wind will blow, I will drive an old Subaru with a bumper dotted with remnants of old Gore Lieberman campaign stickers. ore Li rma 2000!
Actually, I'm applying to a creative writing program here in Texas. Maybe I'll hit Iowa again just to see if they like me now, but I can't see actually going to Iowa were I to get in. Maybe I should leave that stone unturned.
Little Bro started fancypants Toilet Paper High School today. I must laugh when I see kids tooling about the 'Mar in their TP jackets. The cheerleaders are particularly amusing. TP! No more tales of former perv drama teacher. It's all elitism and privilege from here on out.
Posted by Zerd at August 27, 2007 06:17 PMYou mean U of Iowa, and not Iowa State, right? With the Iowa writers program (or some such name)? I think I know people with connections to that.
Posted by: Dave at August 27, 2007 08:52 PM