Blogging: It's what we do.

I've created this blog for several reasons. First, all the freelancers are doing it. Second, for writing practice. Third, to kill time. Fourth, to catalogue strange Las Vegas happenings.

I'm heading to Nebraska next week to start my MFA program in creative writing. I'm not sure what I'm going to take away from it yet. If anything, it will be impossible for me to say that I didn't give writing a shot, and I can die knowing I followed my dreams or something like that. In any case, I imagine I'll have a lot to report during those ten days.

Meanwhile, I shop for affordable insurance, buy a smaller laptop, and try to calculate how much sleep is too much sleep for the self-employed. I eat cheaply, avoid buying new clothes, dye my hair a more serious shade, and enjoy telling people what I do for a living for the first time.

So far, so good, but I'm still getting paychecks from the school district, and will for another few weeks. I procured a job teaching college composition, and I've yet to determine whether this will prove profitable enough for the money. Additionally, I'm starting to feel some malaise because I have no daily schedule. My guess is this feeling will go away once I have coursework to finish and papers to grade.

Until then, I nap.