Halloweenie

I've been naughty. But hey---it's Halloween---the one time of the year that I can let my horns down. Oh my, did I say 'horns'? I meant 'hair.' I don't have much of it to let down, but you get the idea....

Now is time of year to be looking at grad schools, if I plan on applying. I am considering it. If I get a full time position at the end of my first two tears of teaching, then I will be quite ecstatic. However, if I can't find a full-time position after two years experience, then I must consider other possibilities. I know want to teach, which helps, and I need a PhD to teach at most colleges. That means I need to look at grad programs---creative writing programs. I'm not worried about getting into a program, it's just deciding which subject to write: poetry or prose? I much more torn than I thought I would be. My poetry's probably more...polished; I've just studied it more. However, I'd like to learn more about writing fiction, but I'm not certain a PhD program is appropriate. Most of the knowledge I need there is just practical stuff that you can only lean by doing. By attempting a novel, I'm learning quite a bit, but a part of me would really like getting 'credit' for doing something that I already am doing. The doctorate, if I decide to go for it next fall, would be so I can teach, which I really, really like doing.

Hopefully, I'll get a full time teaching position in the fall, but if not, I may have to suck it up and go back to school---a scary notion, and an appropriate one for Halloween.

I just might dress up as the person I should be: a good little Brethren girl in modest garb, asking for directions to the nearest potluck, where I may meet my future spouse, a similarly-simple-minded pastor or deacon with whom I shall create Brethren spawn of mostly-German exaction...

...I'm sure I can find that costume at K-Mart.