coming back down to earth

The drive back yesterday from the higher altitudes of Vermont’s Green Mountains was a long low ride , descending through the lush green of Burlington, Montpelier and Barre. I was coming home from almost two weeks as a first semester student at The Vermont College of Fine Arts where, over the course of the next two years, I will be studying for my MFA in Writing. It is a low-residency program — which means that students are on-campus for two intense periods each year, and work with single member of the superb faculty during the ensuing six months. In my case, 200+ pages of a manuscript that I have now committed to writing.

This means that I will have to finally get time management down to an exact science — and I thought I was good at it before! Hah! For someone who works 50-60 hours per week as it is, the expected 25-30 that I must now add to that will be a very real and compelling challenge.