Anticipation

I am waiting to hear if I have been accepted into the MFA creative writing program of my choice and I think I am down to the last few days. It's nerve racking.

I found a Web site that lists when the notices for every program in the country are sent out and the one I applied to sent notices by March 8 last year. So, it could be any day now.

This feels like it has been a long journey for me. I decided to pursue this graduate degree after my mother died last spring as a way of acknowledging a long-time dream and to honor her lifetime committment to art. I spent the summer and fall working on my writing sample, taking the GRE test, and assembling all the various pieces and parts required - then submitted it in December.

Now, here I sit, 10 months since I first came up with the notion and within a few days of finding out if I was successful. I have thought about a "Plan B" and I do have some ideas about what I could do, but don't even want to jinx myself by planning too much.

Here's to hoping!