Already?

It's New Year's Eve all ready and I feel like I've hardly taken a breath.

Grad school applications are proving to be more complicated than I could've imagined. It's the same basic information again and again but repackaged in many different ways. And you better get it right or you face jeporadizing or forfeiting your entrance into a particular program. I've gotten 1/2 in. Yikes!

And packing for Guatemala isn't looking any better. It's clear to me that we're supposed to pack light, but not only am I not sure what that means, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do it, given I have to pack work time and pack for non-work time. Oh, and I think I have like three articles of clothing packed and a good amount of things to still buy.

The good news is that one of the programs I'm applying to requested a creative writing portfolio of either fiction or poetry. As I did poetry, I had to submit 10 pages (of my best) poems. It was actually kind of difficult, but I did it and I was pretty happy with the caliber of all 15 or so poems. Expect to see some appear here in future posts.