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Semester's over, graduation is nigh, and things are starting to clear up.
I'm not leaving nashville. My long-time friend Ashley and I have signed a year lease on a great duplex with a full front and back yards, a porch, a deck and a garage. For all intents and purposes it is actually a new home.
I'm going to work 36 hours a week making the $12 or so (mostly in unclaimed tips) as a barista because I love it, and it will allow me to have plenty of travel time to check out grad schools in cities such as LA, various UC schools, boston, atlanta, vandy here in nashville, chicago, and eugene OR. I'll be applying for Fall '07, and also working part-time at night as a tutor for Kaplan or Princeton Review ($20-25/hr, probably) to ensure amazing test scores and save cash in the meantime.
I'm also going to keep writing country and bluegrass for artists and nashville, and still continue the angus whyte legacy at least with seamus because it's too damn fun to quit, even if kyle is leaving us to move to toronto. More importantly, i'm going to finish up a couple of experimental albums for myself that have been swimming around in brain for years now, and there are more than a dozen people in town who have already volunteered their services to help. I would feel totally unfulfilled if I left nashville without finishing the things I have started.
I may spend a month or two in los angeles toward the end of the summer, because I really do not know whether or not I would enjoy living there and it's the only university (Loyola) I know for sure I will be accepted into with funding (thank you professors).
I am in the final running of students to be published in Stanford's journal (The Dualist), I have just been published in an existentialist undergraduate journal (The Reed), and am still in the running to be published at Yale (in the Review). For those of you keeping track, I have also been published in SUNY's annual proceedings, and twice at Belmont (which doesn't really matter). If any of these possibile publications go through, considering what I already have published, I should be able to go to grad school at a place that will ensure me a fantastic academic future.
But my real passion is teaching. Not being famous, not being a world-philosopher, and not starting a cult following. So realistically, I could go anywhere and be happy.
I have to be in Michigan for a week or two at the end of June for my uncle's wedding, and a week or two for Alan and Jillian's wedding (congratulations, friends). I would like to make several other short visits throughout the summer and the fall, but it's time that I faced the facts... it's going to become very difficult for me to make any extended time to come home, and it's very likely my stints in michigan will be nothing more than short visits for the rest of my life. Though it pains me to admit it, unless some serious financial trouble comes my way, it is mostly likely that I will never be living at home or the surrounding area again.
Unless, of course, someday I get a professorship around there somewhere, which I would be totally fine with.
I apologize to some of you in advance.
Love and miss you.
~Joshua
I'm not leaving nashville. My long-time friend Ashley and I have signed a year lease on a great duplex with a full front and back yards, a porch, a deck and a garage. For all intents and purposes it is actually a new home.
I'm going to work 36 hours a week making the $12 or so (mostly in unclaimed tips) as a barista because I love it, and it will allow me to have plenty of travel time to check out grad schools in cities such as LA, various UC schools, boston, atlanta, vandy here in nashville, chicago, and eugene OR. I'll be applying for Fall '07, and also working part-time at night as a tutor for Kaplan or Princeton Review ($20-25/hr, probably) to ensure amazing test scores and save cash in the meantime.
I'm also going to keep writing country and bluegrass for artists and nashville, and still continue the angus whyte legacy at least with seamus because it's too damn fun to quit, even if kyle is leaving us to move to toronto. More importantly, i'm going to finish up a couple of experimental albums for myself that have been swimming around in brain for years now, and there are more than a dozen people in town who have already volunteered their services to help. I would feel totally unfulfilled if I left nashville without finishing the things I have started.
I may spend a month or two in los angeles toward the end of the summer, because I really do not know whether or not I would enjoy living there and it's the only university (Loyola) I know for sure I will be accepted into with funding (thank you professors).
I am in the final running of students to be published in Stanford's journal (The Dualist), I have just been published in an existentialist undergraduate journal (The Reed), and am still in the running to be published at Yale (in the Review). For those of you keeping track, I have also been published in SUNY's annual proceedings, and twice at Belmont (which doesn't really matter). If any of these possibile publications go through, considering what I already have published, I should be able to go to grad school at a place that will ensure me a fantastic academic future.
But my real passion is teaching. Not being famous, not being a world-philosopher, and not starting a cult following. So realistically, I could go anywhere and be happy.
I have to be in Michigan for a week or two at the end of June for my uncle's wedding, and a week or two for Alan and Jillian's wedding (congratulations, friends). I would like to make several other short visits throughout the summer and the fall, but it's time that I faced the facts... it's going to become very difficult for me to make any extended time to come home, and it's very likely my stints in michigan will be nothing more than short visits for the rest of my life. Though it pains me to admit it, unless some serious financial trouble comes my way, it is mostly likely that I will never be living at home or the surrounding area again.
Unless, of course, someday I get a professorship around there somewhere, which I would be totally fine with.
I apologize to some of you in advance.
Love and miss you.
~Joshua