Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

school;

nail down fall semester classes

nail down major (communications, journalism, English, creative writing???)

nail down school

books;

Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan

Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Spirit Bound by Richille Mead

writing;

finish one (1) novel (either My Brother is Ruining my Life or On Kissing Tom Legend or Dreamwoven)

flesh out unfinished manuscripts

life;

get a job

get driver's license

Can I major in it?

I was going to make some snarky comment regarding my Shakespeare teacher incorrectly using commas (I know, like I'm one to talk!) then I did a little research and found out that the way I was taught was the British rule for commas, and he's using the American rule for commas. I love grammar. Could I major in grammar?

Everything I do lately can be twisted back to this question:

can I major in it?

I'm twenty, almost twenty-one. I should know what I'm going to major in. This scenic route I'm taking has become incrediably scenic. In fact, it's become one of those journies where you are driving the scenic route and you get lost and even though it's still pretty, the fact is, you're still lost. What a fucking metaphor.

It's not that I'm lost... I'm just held up. I think I'm about six or seven classes away from finishing my general ed, which means I can move on and get on with this whole school thing. I can't wait to move on!

In the past six years I've gone through broadcast journalism, journalism, special education, English, creative writing and then back to English. Then I saw what a good essay should be like for college... my teachers have been easy on me. I can write a research paper no problem, but disecting a book... I hate reading for school enough as it is. I don't need help by having to disect the freaking thing like a bio lab frog. Creative Writing sounds nice and lovely but people I respect in the field have stressed that majoring in Creative Writing isn't a good idea because it's just too focused. You need something to write about. It makes sense to me, and I'm about to pull out my hair in my current writing class. I hate having to do things that I don't want to do. I hate writing about symbology or theme or tone. I could minor in it, that would be good fun. But majoring in it is not the answer.

I want to be a literary agent. A literary agent is the person that recieves queries and decides whether they are going to accept them and pitch them to publishing companies. It's either that or an editor, for an editor I can major in some sort of writing. But for being a lit agent... I can pretty much major in anything. Obviously, it should be helpful to what I'm going into (YA Lit, hopefully) but, really, anything. And it just makes it so much harder because English isn't the only answer. If it was cut and dry I could do that and just put up with it, find an easy program and get on with it.

But it's not cut and dry. I'm looking into schools. I want to stay in central California, Montery-San Francisco, by the coast. That's about all I have thought out so far.