Grad school time!

Here we go again. Last year I applied to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and got the little envelope in March. This year, hoping for at least one big envelope from at least one school, I'm throwing my net wider other than Iowa City.

Possible places I could be living next spring include Iowa City, Baltimore, Oregon, Colorado, California or Rhode Island.

I applied for the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, but I'm not holding my breath. That's one of the best programs, although you don't get a degree at the end. They basically pay you $26,000 a year to hang out and write. That'd be way too good to comprehend.

So out I go, fishing for letters of recommendation, application fees, statements of purpose and all the fun she-bang. At least I was smart enough to choose programs that don't involve the GREs. God bless America.