MFA Rock

… after sixish hours working on revising/rewriting my first 17 pages. Lots more work still to do, but nice to have done some. I also cleaned the desk and filed all the papers I brought back with me (handouts from lectures, my own manuscripts from workshop with comments, admin stuff).

And, joy of joys, my first packet due date was pushed back to Saturday, February 17th, which gives me almost a month to get the first 40 pages of my now-untitled novel in shape, two short critical essays completed, and to read four or five books and do an annotated bibliography. My advisor is Tim Wynne-Jones, who is a fabulous, inspiring, hilarious writer, and who also–coolest of coolness-wrote the music for Fraggle Rock.

Tomorrow, back to work. Still coughing a bit, but that’s slacked off too.

There is ice on the INSIDE of my dorm room window. How do you people live like this?

Some selected scenes from snowy Vermont. First up, a picture of College Hall, snow and jogger from yesterday:

The stern old man painting in the main lecture hall has been dragged up, first by the graduating students, then by the students throwing the Mardi Gras party:

And, finally, this is the view outside my window this morning:

And I still think this is among the best things I’ve ever decided to do.

(But I’m really, really, really busy and swamped, so posting will remain light. But I’ll try and photograph the snow.)