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I've been falling in love with it, have been sort of fiddling with it for years in my own craptastic, highschoolish way, and I never even knew there was a specific term for it. Holy cats.
God, I wish I would have focused more on specialized English classes when I was in college. I sort of...sort of want to go back and do that. :x But I don't want to have to suffer through Linguistics hell like Anj did. And it's...not the best way to go for wanting a specific career at the end of it--unless you know what you want to use it for. And I don't. Except for the little voice that whispers "get an English degree, then go back for a Masters in creative writing like your brother's going except with a poetry emphasis"...except for again, lack of specific career at the end of it. And school again--debt, schoolwork/tests/papers (I've been done with that for 15 years now...), still no *real* job at the end (because you can't just say "I'm going to be a poet and publish" because you *can't count on that*). At least Dave's a lawyer in the meantime, and is *good* at the writing he's going and his MFA/writers residencies are going well, and he has this thing of maybe being a professor in creative writing at the end of it which is something real and attainable.
...how many weeks of multiple posts a day? Yeah, can we say 'too much time on one's hands' as well as bored and still pathetically jobless. Least I'm thinking/self-analyzing? >_>; Or at least I'm not just playing WoW all day?
I've been falling in love with it, have been sort of fiddling with it for years in my own craptastic, highschoolish way, and I never even knew there was a specific term for it. Holy cats.
God, I wish I would have focused more on specialized English classes when I was in college. I sort of...sort of want to go back and do that. :x But I don't want to have to suffer through Linguistics hell like Anj did. And it's...not the best way to go for wanting a specific career at the end of it--unless you know what you want to use it for. And I don't. Except for the little voice that whispers "get an English degree, then go back for a Masters in creative writing like your brother's going except with a poetry emphasis"...except for again, lack of specific career at the end of it. And school again--debt, schoolwork/tests/papers (I've been done with that for 15 years now...), still no *real* job at the end (because you can't just say "I'm going to be a poet and publish" because you *can't count on that*). At least Dave's a lawyer in the meantime, and is *good* at the writing he's going and his MFA/writers residencies are going well, and he has this thing of maybe being a professor in creative writing at the end of it which is something real and attainable.
...how many weeks of multiple posts a day? Yeah, can we say 'too much time on one's hands' as well as bored and still pathetically jobless. Least I'm thinking/self-analyzing? >_>; Or at least I'm not just playing WoW all day?
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:00 am (UTC)I'm here, reading and empathizing...
I would love, love, love to get an MFA in Poetry, but I feel you on the "but what are you really going to do for a career?"
I guess you could always be a prof, eh? Or just proof/copy edit as a part-time thing and use the rest of your time to create...
I have always thought that I would haaaaaaaaate teaching, but the longer I am at my job, the better that alternative starts looking.
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