Exciting News!

     It's been a long time, but I have some exciting news. It's been a busy past couple months. I applied for grad school at my alma mater, Northern Arizona University, and got in. I also applied for a graduate teaching position and was selected. This means that in addition to going to classes, I'll be teaching a class of undergrad freshman English 105 (a basic English class required for all freshman). For this, I'm getting paid, and I'm also getting 100% of my tuition waived which is the greatest part of all! So, in late July, I'll be moving back up back to my beloved Flagstaff, taking my fur child with me, of course.

     Life is good.

Grad School

     I've been looking at going back to school sometime soon, maybe even as soon as the fall semester. In addition to figuring out where the heck I want to go, I'm trying to figure out what the heck I want my Master's in which is more important right now than figuring out where I want to get it from. I'm considering Creative Writing, but I'm also looking at Museum Studies, English Literature, History (probably sometime in the European Renaissance), and maybe even Art History. So many choices! I just can't seem to narrow down what I really want to do with my life. It all sounds like so much fun to me. I'd love to spend my days writing short stories or novels, or reading classic literature, or examining Van Gogh paintings for symbolism, or reading about the inner workings of the Catholic Church during the Italian Renaissance. How can I decide which one to pursue? Is there any way to know which one will make me the happiest in the long run? I know that I can always be a lifelong student and continue to get degrees, but grad school is a hefty chunk of cash and if I'm going to invest that kind of money at this stage of my life, I have to seriously consider what it is that I want to do with at least this first part of my life. 

     I feel like lately everything has been one big life decision after another. However, I have to remember: