Parodies Lost

Is it just a coincidence that after I updated my blog (after how many months!?!) that I received my acceptance to UBC's optional MFA program today? Hm, I feel like I've been kind of weirdly blessed - like one of those chain letter things that you know is just a trick, but you find yourself thinking about torturing five of your friends with copies anyway.

I am over the moon with happy!

I'm figuring out it's much harder to keep a blog than I thought. I read other people's witty, insightful, or just plain interesting comments ... Brenda ... and I think, "what do I really have to say that's interesting?" Now, if I took my own advice, or rather David Carpenter's advice I wrote about in my Freelance article, I'd know that it's just a matter of finding the way in. That maybe finding the important thing to say isn't the most important thing after all. We'll see. I'm trying to make a commitment to doing this more often. Just settling down to the computer and writing.

I do still think it's easier to be someone else, someone anonymous sometimes. In this context, the only people who read this are people who already know me. There's a certain attraction in being read by people who have no knowledge of you and no expectations.