Category Archives: EDUCATION

In keeping with a previous plan of action, and disciplined by the setting down in stone of weblogging, I am into: Suttree, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Fiction Writers Workshop, and Still Life. All are listed in the right sidebar from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay, the post grad plan for now is: Read three four books at a time: 1/fiction or non-fiction (starting w/getting back into Suttree) 2/one short story or poem anthology (getting back on track w/subscription lit journals) 3/one how-to book on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m satisfied at least, with the track I am on in my writing fiction, but need to keep on top of it–especially when I see the progress (despite rejections) made in this past semester alone.  I’ll need, I would think, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the reasons, or rather just something that adds credence to my belief in a merry go round of lives is that I can’t see how I could have become so anal about striving for perfect scores in just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This post was held up awaiting an answer, and today I received a response to my e-mail that had found its way to Dr. Cathryn Addy, President of Tunxis Community College to the effect that: "On April 26th, the Community … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…and one to go. But it’s the ten-page history exam that’s finished, and I wish I had finished it last night because I would have run it in to campus just to completely feel free of it. The one left … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Almost done with the final history essay exam–much easier to do after that damn book I bitched about for two weeks.  Then I need to finish up one or a couple stories for Creative Writing, and that’ll only be tough … Continue reading → Continue reading →

History paper turned in before the start of class, made myself a promise that even if I felt insecure once the book was discussed in class I wouldn’t rewrite.  Stuck to my guns; I’d mentioned most of the sections he’d … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Still plodding through a history paper word by painful word.  Fact, no fiction here allowed.  Can’t colorize World War I–it would be a sacrilege and automatic F, offensive to a learned professor’s sensibilities. I cannot be, I know, a journalist.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s difficult (omygosh–just for the first time noticed the numeric keypad as part of the regular keyboard on Del!  Sure wish I’d learn to read directions and manuals first.  Although to be honest, the only time I’ve needed it in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lean and mean after two days of barely eating, I’m working myself up into a diatribe on education and the older student in particular.  The worlds within and without the encompassing campus.  Reality and not. Perhaps though, if I really, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Truly, I’m sure it’s a great book, but I absolutely hate "Goodbye to All That" by Robert Graves.  It’s ponderously slow, people are dying all over the place and Graves doesn’t seem affected–which is a damned shame because that’s what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Damn.  Just last month when I was busy playing "I’m a writer!" was when I should have instead been stuffing those envelopes with applications for the Fall semester.  I can possibly still get into Central, but I’ve got to spend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As always, procrastination is a tool to sabotage my plans.  Too late to register for the upcoming Fall semester at Wesleyan.  Not the best day going, nor the worst, freeing me to make much more of little things.  An emotional … Continue reading → Continue reading →

God help me, if I weren’t so close I wouldn’t do it, but I registered for the final summer course. Continue reading →