No, I am not dead

Hello fanbase!

Yes, yes NaNoWriMo ended 18 full days ago, so I don't really have an excuse to have not updated this blog. Except I do. I think I may have, like, two readers who don't know me personally, and so it is to you, dear readers, that this post is addressed.

After much contemplation and prayer (which I did instead of blogging), I've decided to leave my grad program in Chicago and return to Colorado. Not that the two of you ever knew I was from Colorado to begin with, or even that I was in Chicago for a Master of Fine Arts creative writing program, but still. I'm sure you care about the developments of my life all the same. And if not, just smile and nod and pretend that you do.

I really missed Colorado and the mountains and a cold that's not sopping wet, and I couldn't justify the amount of debt I was going to get into for a degree that wouldn't necessarily help me in the job market. So, new plan: move back to Colorado, most likely return to my old job (they'll take me on as a temp, at least), save bunches of money and closet myself at night and write the novel that will make my name!

Yes, I remain a dreamer.

Now, you want to know what the major bummer is about all of this? I have to change my profile description yet again. I aim to do that later this week.

Anyway, fanbase, thanks for sticking with me, and now that I'm no longer a graduate student but will instead join the rest of the working flunkies, maybe I'll be a bit better at regular posting. In the meantime, I really and truly mean to continue updating the NaNo blog. Oops, maybe I shouldn't have made that a link, because it hasn't been updated recently either. In the words of Bart Simpson, "Here you go. Just kidding!"

Just kidding indeed.