T Minus Ten Days and Counting...

So, the last seven days have been all hustle and bustle. Although the MFA residency doesn't start until January 3rd, I will be traveling to London early to enjoy some much-needed relaxation time. We have, in fact, already secured our tickets to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, the Tower of London, the New Year's Eve fireworks and made other tentative plans as well (such as nerding out in front of the Sherlock staple Speedy's and consuming a full English breakfast).

Preparations are underway for not only the vacation portion of the trip but the learning portion as well. My materials are submitted. All required readings have been digested, including Feed, Anatomy of a Disappearance, The Maples Stories, Bartelby the Scrivener, The Fall River Axe Murders and the various iterations of Bluebeard required for our generative workshop. Hopefully there won't be too many last-minute curveballs by the professors. I see some lectures on the schedule with no assigned readings posted as of yet.

As part o…