My manuscript is done, the paperwork is done, the administrative staff in the English Department are so sick of taking my calls that they tell me to stop worrying. My MFA is finished!
Many of my MFA-related posts are here. Mid-program I stopped blogging so much about the details, for two main reasons. First, a professor was acting increasingly bizarrely toward me, and it was a small enough program so I feared that this person’s identity could be sussed out. Second, I started teaching myself, and while that took up a lot of time and attention I didn’t think it would be fair to blog about the in-class efforts of my oh-so-nervous freshmen.
So to get a complete picture of my grad school experience, you really need to sit down with me. I invite you to do this — or just celebrate my newly-minted MFAness — anytime at Musso & Frank, with LA’s best martinis. Seriously. Just email paperhaus (at) gmail.com
Congratulations!
For what it’s worth, I’ve come to believe that tales of strangeness are an unwritten requirement in most programs.
Dear Ms. MFA,
Congratulations! I vividly remember the moment I got the last of my administrative things done for my masters — such a relief! You deserve much praise and joy! I’d love to sit down with you and get all the gory details, but, alas, we are now on opposite sides of the country again. Someday!
Yo, M****F***A!
Congrats, Eastside-style, on knocking down the Big One. Long you have worked, far you have travelled, grasshopper…now, of course, you have to do that thing with the white hot wrist branding on the kettle…
If there’s an official Musso-bration with the LA gang, lemme know…hopefully not until after August 22nd…away on vacation.
Bravo, Pinky!
congrats on finishing!
im sure they will love it!
thanks you guys!
Erin, someday we should compare notes.
Tony, they might not have loved it, but they’re one with it, which means I’m totally, entirely finished. Done for reals!
And Doug, you know that no matter when I make it to Musso & Frank, I always have room in my schedule for another visit.
Yay, Pinky!!!!
Congrats, Ms. MFA!!
CAROLYN!!!
Congrats! You totally rock! You have officially Mastered the Fine Arts. The paper says so and so it must be true.
Wish I could be there to celebrate,
Miriam
Awesome! We await the novel
Congratulations – now it’s time to conquer Hollywood!
We. Must. Celebrate. With drinks that begin with M (martinis) and F (?) and A (absinthe?). Or, you know, just beer and those spicy crunchy things at The Bounty.
Congrats!!!
Congrat’s!!! So jealous here!
Congratulations! (Don’t know if you remember me, but it’s Esther from Providence. You were once kind enough to send me a cd of an interview with Mark Sarvas. So thanks!)
What’s the next step? Are you going to look for a teaching job? I assume you’re planning to turn the manuscript into a novel. What’s it about? Anyway, good luck!
nice work, carolyn. what a weight to have that done, no? i can’t believe you did it in 2 years WITH teaching and taking super high course loads. seriously. hats off.