and now back to our regularly scheduled programming

So ... back to school.

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I'm taking a class with Sarah Levine, one of the more popular professors at the art institute. Her classes fill up fast and are hard to come by, it was luck that there was an opening and I slid in. It's hard to tell this early, but I think she's worth the hype:


I'm also taking a class titiled "Travel Writing" The professor is Anne Calcagno. She is quite enthusiastic, which is good because this is an evening class, and regardless of how exciting the material, it's hard to pay attention when you are sitting in a classroom at 8pm.


And this semester I have two graduate advisors. The first is Mary Cross, who I took a class with last semester. She's a poet, essayist, fiction writer and also an enthusiastic professor. Plus, she digs my work. So that helps.

And I am doing advising with Beth Nugent. She's another professor that is extremely popular and I'd heard great things about her. She seems to really dive into your work and is really invested in advising her students. When I left our advising session I almost felt like I just left a therapy session and I was feeling motivated to get some writing done.