Summer Just Got a Whole Lot Busier
Edited to add: I still have a copy of Fahrenheit Twins up for grabs! Email me at metro_mama@hotmail.com
As you know, I just finally finished my undergrad and was looking forward to having a leisurely summer before starting the MA in September. I was on the waiting list for a course that is completely up my alley, but was not too disappointed about not getting in.
So, guess what. I had coffee last week with a friend who’s already in the program who happened to mention she had just dropped the course. Against my better judgement I made enquiries and as “luck” would have it, I’m in. This is really good news. It will be a big help to get a jump on the program and it will just mean next summer will be lighter (and might allow us to begin project #2 a little sooner). Plus it looks like a fabulous course—it’s a study of short stories centred around Alice Munro’s Runaway as well as stories by Poe, de Maupassant, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway, Mansfield, O’Connor, Borges, Olsen, Carver, Atwood and a few others. It should be a pleasure.
But I just need to get used to the idea of a 25-page research paper due in August when I was planning to be drinking beer by the lake. Sigh.
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McHotty returned home yesterday after 5 days on a major exercise (he’s on a heavy urban search and rescue team). Was I ever glad to see him. How the fack do people parent solo? It’s exhausting.
I made him a nice dinner of rainbow trout and lots of veggies (the poor man had to eat army rations all week). I had leftover Indian two nights, and pizza two nights.
Cakes punished him a little but they’re best buds again. I think they’re going to head to the park later so I can deal with this messy house.
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Happy happy 30th to my wonderful, beautiful sisters. I got lucky the day in-laws were handed out!
Labels: flotsam and jetsam
posted by metro mama @ 11:55 AM
15 Comments:
Why didn't you let me know you were flying solo? I would have had you over for dinner and playtime with Cakes...
oh and like HUGE congrats on the MA program. It may change the tomne of your time at the dock, but it is great news nonetheless.
i meant tone, not tomne.
sigh
That does sound like an interesting course. Congratulations.
Also, de Maupassant came from the same place in France as one of my ancestors. Genealogy research is under way to prove (or disprove) the connection.
I'm so glad you got into the course! You're going to rock it - you know that.
Ooh, it does seem like there is never a real break sometimes, doesn't it? Like it's true that we will rest when we are dead? But that does sound so you, I bet you will enjoy it, despite the looming essay.
(And god, it's painful when they have to be away. I've often wondered how a single woman makes the decision to become a mom on her own.)
(I meant, as opposed to moms who lose a husband or leave a marriage and are plunged into it because they don't have a choice or it's the better option.)
Congratulations you smartie pants you!
Being alone with the kiddies sucks. I know of what I speak. I am a big fan of all food that comes in a canned, boxed or microwavable format.
Yummy.
Any time you want me to cook for you, just let me know. I'll break out the brand name stuff just for YOU! None of that no name crap for my girlfriends!
BIG CONGRATS!!!!
Do I say summer courses tend to be a little more laid back or will that curse you?
25 pages is a lot but maybe cakes and her computer can help, at least with the formatting.
Congratulations! Summer courses are always strangely much more fun.
Hey congratulations! Have fun with that reading.
Wow! that course sounds AWESOME! Not as good as beers by the lake, but awesome nonetheless! :)
Rainbow trout -- how gourmet of you, metro! ;) Sounds wonderful!
Congrads on the undergrad!!
Hey congrats on your course and thanks for the birthday wishes!!!
To my thirties and beyond!!!!!
lots of love
Well, that just means it was meant to be now doesn't it? I love it when Fate kicks in like that. Congrats!
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