One Last Thing Before Bed
As already stated, I am at Ender’s Island off of Mystic, CT for about ten days. I will make a trip home at the end of this week for around twenty hours to spend time with Erin and CAMPER, but for the most part my life is encompassed by that of the MFA-Writing writer.
Today was a good day. One of the first things I did, once I kind of head my head about me, was to wander around taking pictures of some of the buildings. Honestly, this is more for Erin than anyone else as she loves retreats and retreat centers and I am on a retreat (residency really) at a retreat center. My first full day experience, other than taking pictures, was a lot of, what felt like, activity from a workshop class where we discussed a first chapter from a novel to a seminar on finding the premise in fiction to lunch and breakfast and dinner and then a reading by three of the faculty members, all of whom are published authors, and two of whom moved me in a way I can’t really explain – and it’s not the kind of movement where the need to write comes into play, but it did include me going and purchasing a book by one of the faculty members, Da Chen, and then asking him to sign it. Since those pictures are on my phone and this is made considerably easier (posting) when I transfer pictures to my computer and then from the computer to this website, that will have to wait for some free time tomorrow or later in the week. Regardless, I did take some pictures of Da’s signing books and I have to say this is the coolest book signing I’ve ever witnessed.
Regardless, today was a good day. It was fun. Filled with people and conversation and good food. I am, as is true to who I am, kind of aloof to a lot of things more as a result of this weird terror inside of me that screams, “NO!!!” very loudly when it’s time to meet new people, but still desiring to get to know some of these people as these are the men and women with whom I will be making this graduate journey for the next couple of years.
Now, school, I am sure, is fun and me updating my blog is also (at least of late) kind of a unique thing, however, I am closing this entry down after only a few hundred words because I am tired and because I need to sleep. However, I am having a good time, enjoying where I am at and what I am doing, and really do expect that by this time in 2011 I will be a graduate and ready to really publish something – even though I still harbor plans to do that between now and then anyway.
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