It looks like what must be some kind of clerical error has worked in my favor and I’ve been accepted into the Rutgers University MFA program for fiction. I’m not sure how this could have happened, but I’m glad it did. I know you’re thinking, “Hey, Oldy, aren’t you a little old to be going back to school?” Yeah well up yours. How’s that for literary craftsmanship?

Usually I’m loath to put this kind of personal news on the site, but I’m patting myself on the back this time so I can take a minute to express my gratitude to my wife, without whose dilligent research and flat-out nagging me to actually create a writing sample, the entire thought would have been abandoned long ago, like most other pipedreams that come and go in the average week (speaking of, anyone want to start a desert rock band?). I didn’t think I had a chance in hell of getting into any of the schools to which I applied, especially with applications up because of the dog fart state of the economy, but she made me finish the process anyway and now that she was right, I can safely say it wasn’t a waste of time.

So that’s that. Classes start in the fall on the Newark campus. In the meantime, by way of celebration, I’ll be doing what I most enjoy these days — writing about records. Tomorrow The Obelisk will undergo an experiment that will top anything yet attempted: Five full-form reviews in one day. I’ve never done five single posts in that amount of time, let alone five reviews, and I honestly don’t know if my feeble brain can handle it, but dammit, I’m going to give it a shot, and tomorrow’s the day.

Tags: self-aggrandizing

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