Got news back from Michener...

and I was denied. To be honest, I wish I was completely shocked and throwing a "why me" epic tantrum, but it's just not in me. It's really a case of "oh hai maturity" and also that getting in was very unlikely (message boards equated it with winning the lottery. Not a bad analogy, actually). Not because I suck at writing or anything, I mean, I'm a great writer. Maybe it's a case of "not just yet" or in all honesty, going there would've been a bad idea. Who knows?

So will you apply for grad school ever again? Oh yeah, I still will love to go, but it may now have to wait. In all honesty, I need to get a full-time job and move out first. That was partly the reason I wanted to go so bad. I wanted a huge damn excuse to get myself together and do something with my life. And I feel that was my biggest error in this whole thing. Ah, the old saying "putting all your eggs in one basket" applies here.

Will you apply for Michener again? To be honest, I don't know now. I feel, in a strange way, I might've applied there and hoped for admission to prove to myself that I'm a good writer. Sure, the money is great, but I really didn't know a ton about the program and its professors. I mean, it could be a decent school and going somewhere else would've been better, for all I f***ing know.

What now, Frustrated Lady Writer? Time to just write and find a full-time job that will take me further north from here. As for grad school, it may have to wait.

Thanks to those who wished me well and also helped me with my application. Time to dust myself off and move on to other things.

Long-Due Update

Hey peeps, this is your Frustrated Lady Writer here to give y'all an update in the friendly and readable format of bullet points.

• New Year has been a strange one so far. For one, I am going to lost my part-time health benefits from  my job in 2013. Probably by then I'll be working somewhere else and getting health insurance from grad school. *hope*
• Doing well on the reading challenges. Read the first two of the Wrinkle in Time quintet. That's about it so far.
• Getting on with my resolutions. Been exercising and eating better. 
• Will protest SOPA and PIPA by joining the blackout. Wanna do it too? Here is the link for more information.

As for the latter, my website will go dark in protest around 8 AM and will return 12 hours from then. Hopefully during this time everyone will contact their political representatives and join the Internet community in solidarity to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Even if you don't have a site, do your part and contact your representative(s). Because the louder the voices, the louder the NO, the more that these bills will die in Congress.