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* I have suddenly become Someone Who Obsessively Holiday Shops. Not quite to the scale of the rest of the country, but this is pretty extreme for me -- given that I normally argue very loudly each year with anyone who'll listen about why holiday gifts are a capitalist scam. But suddenly this year I've been enormously happy going around finding
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It was a sleety rain all night and everything was messy this morning, but not that bad. It was more messy than icy in our valley town. School wasn't called off in our town, although a few hundred feet up in elevation and they were all iced in.
All my clients called to cancel because of the horrible storm, but at noon the skies cleared and the sun came out and the roads were cleared by then and it was no problem whatsoever.
I think we DID have some power fluctuations in the night, though. I didn't see evidence that we'd lost power, but my UPS was fried this morning when I went to turn on the computer. All electronics were fine, just the UPS is gone. Also, email was weird in town today. I think some local server might have gotten toasted by power spikes.
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Yesterday I devoted my entire walk home from Small Boy's school on the subject of whether and how to try to talk to you about borrowing 60K to get a MFA. Couldn't your do workshops with those teachers? Couldn't you wait until you win the lottery or marry someone who wants to Keep You In a Manner To Which You'd Like to Become Accustomed? Couldn't you take better drugs?
I think sometimes people get caught up in HOW they want to do something and forget to go back to the WHY. What motivates you to want that MFA? Is it to teach? Then teach: no $60K out-of-state MFA required. Is it to write poetry? Then write poetry. Do workshops. Glom onto a mentor. Most poets don't expect their students to go bankrupt to sit at their feet.
Sometimes it doesn't matter HOW wonderful it'd be: if you can't afford it, you don't do it. Find a better way.
Phew. This is what I wanted to say.
Oh, and the sisters? So cute!
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I see this fairly often with people trying to get bank loans for new businesses; they say the bank doesn't think they're a strong enough bet to loan the money to them, so they figure they need to go find someone ELSE to loan it to them. I'm left trying to figure out how to tell them the truth smacking them in the face: if the bank doesn't think they've got a strong enough business plan, then maybe they ought to fix their plan until it IS strong enough!
This applies to grad school: if they think you're not a good fit for the program, find out why. Your assumption that a semester at UNH might help may be completely off-base. You may get honest feedback if you ask. Fix that (if possible) and reapply.
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