Making good progress on a story called “Ten Year Reunion.” One of those stories that flowed and flowed and flowed and it’s getting very close to the time to check to see whether it’s wine that was flowing or…other less attractive liquids. Still, it’s the first post-Clarion story that is close to completion. I’m eager to see how the crit groups reacts because it’s a bit different. We’ll wait to see.

(sigh) The issue of going to graduate school has cropped up yet again. As Amy pointed out, I can’t keep working low-level admin jobs forever just because they give me time to write. I need to be looking down the road at what I really want to do, and what I really want to do is read and write. It’s something that I happen to be good at but there’s not much work unless you’re teaching, and I don’t want to teach high school. Good in theory, tough in practice. I would love to teach at the college level but those jobs are even fewer and farther between–not to mention the small matter of getting into a good school, staying in school for a number years, the prospect of a long and difficult job search. I know I would love going back to school but this dream is laced with a number of very hard realities that make it difficult to get excited about the prospect. Ugh. I would feel better about taking a gamble if I was 21 instead of 31 but I’m not getting any younger, either, and it’s not like my old jobs, even in soccer, really lit a fire under me.(/sigh)

About 25% of “Pavane.” It’s good but I’m not in love with it. I’ve finished the Second Measure and started the Third and noticed how all three have a great deal to do with craftsmanship. The First Measure deals with trains, the Second Measure deals with the art of Signalling the trains, and the Third Measure has to do with printing. Or at least the first five or six pages do. It’ll be interesting to see how, and if, the Measures ever meet up because right now there’s nothing tying them together.