Later in the day, one of my best good friends posted something about me on her blog, and it is actually quite a funny but embarrassing story. When I told her that I didn’t think that it was a good idea to post it, she said, “Well, there are only like two people that read our blogs anyway. Who cares!” That is when I thought more about the hubby comment. How do all those really cool women who can support themselves with advertising from their blogs do it? From what I can tell they all are already leading very cool and important lives to begin with, which is exactly why they are able to support themselves with their writing, but how do they have time to make a living, live, and write about it all.

This is the same scenario I will eventually face in academia too!  I have never really considered the fact that I could support myself with my writing, but I guess that if I do get into the amazingly cool PhD program I just applied to, I had better get used to the idea. Up until this point, I had always considered my profession teaching, which of course is really what all college professors are, but the writing part becomes a requirement in most environments in higher education. So, it was quite a shock to me to realize that in order to support myself/family someday with my writing, I have to actually get someone to read it just like all those super cool blogging women my husband was referring to.

So, my goal will be to post here more frequently in hopes that more writing couldn’t hurt in this whole process of me getting used to this idea. I am also hoping to start another blog with a friend if we can get things off the ground. And, I will give anyone interested out there the link if that comes to fruition.  All of this goes well with my word for the year too.

So to all of you loyal people with me at the beginning of this adventure “your hair looks nice today!”

I am really excited about all that I have going on right now.  I am in the process of getting my application together for Texas Tech’s online PhD program right now.  And, I should totally be working on my statement of purpose right now.  But, I am hoping to have a solid draft of that done by Friday, so I can mail out my packet early next week.  All the requests for recommendations are out.  So, now it is just all that is left on my end to get my stuff together.  But, I am so excited about the possibility of the program.

I am also working on some awesome stuff here at school too.  Takes me a minute to wrap my head around all I am involved with right now actually.  But, here they are.

1. I received a grant to work on a project in Second Life and a multicultural group on our campus.  It has been really exciting to learn more about Second Life and the work this group is doing all at the same time.  And, I would really like to do some more writing about how nontraditional writings can work with more “nontraditional” movements on campuses.
2. I am also working with this multicultural group in a more tech support oriented position, and I hope to be able to do some web design for them.  I really want to touch up on those skills, as it has been a while since I did any of that type of work.  And my own site is in such disarray that I definitely need to spend some time on it as well.
3. And, last but not least, I got involved with the engineering school on campus and some large award application work that they are doing.  That is really cool because I am working with the students to actually write the awards.

I am really excited about all these projects, and I am particularly excited about the spaces between.  How they overlap that is.  I will write more when I find out how everything is progressing.  I can’t wait to get that application in the mail.  That is the first thing that absolutely has to get done.  Then, I will be able to breathe a little easier and not be quite as distracted.