http://realitywrites.wordpress.com Words from an aspiring young writer Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:56:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Top Choices at the moment: UNC Greensboro (duh) NC State University (Raleigh) University of Texas at Austin, Michener Center (dream BIG!) University of Minnesota, Minneapolis University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa University of Arkansas, Fayetteville University of Arizona, Tucson Potential reruns: University of Indiana, Bloomington University of Montana, Missoula Other runners-up Colorado State University Vanderbilt University (Nashville) University of Wisconsin, Madison Arizona State University DISCUSS! http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/working-list-for-fall-2009-admission/ First off, I have new real estate on the internet, and I will blogging primarily here now: http://emilyabenton.com     Yes, that's my real name, and I'm sorry for keeping it hidden for the most part here. And I know it's a real pain in the rear to edit your Blogroll or RSS ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/announcements/ still no answers on the UNCG front. I did officially turn down VCU, though. And I'm assuming SLC knows I'm not going there since I didn't send them a check by their deadline. It's weird to feel that after this whole process, even after getting some good acceptances, I may end ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/in-case-youre-wondering/ I sat on the couch and said I normally consider myself to be emotionally stable You said you believed the same but my face kept drooping into the pile of tissues and the pillow, I laid it in your lap Was I trying to make you my mother? Three times this week into the phone I ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/a-poem-for-today/ ...or at least that's what I've kept saying to Scott the past couple of days while I've coughed up my lungs and removed slugs from my sinus cavaties. and then I heard from my new editor at the newspaper the other day that they want to kill my freelance blog this week ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/im-dying/ sorry I've been M.I.A. I'm sick. Nasty cold aggrivated by allergies. I got it before getting on the airplane Saturday morning. As in, I got it the night before, then overslept, and had to run to the gate at 5:45 a.m. and try not to get even sicker as we rode ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/quick-update-2/ the director at UNC Greensboro just told me that I'm at the top of their list, if I'm interested. http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/good-lord/ Before scene opens, our two main characters, Emily and Scott, have just left a "party" where red wine was consumed with giggly MFA girls, and have been driving about 15 minutes down one long stretch of highway to reach their hotel that is on the outskirts of town. They've passed ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/scene-from-richmond/ unless you count all the emails back and forth, back and forth between people I will be visiting in the coming weeks. oh and I wrote a silly thing for the magazine at work about what albums I've been listening to. by the way, get the new R.E.M. album (out ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/i-have-not-been-writing/ If I had a corner office and more time on my hands at work to mess around on the computer, I'd Photoshop a picture of my head onto the side of a small airplane to illustrate that I'm leaving one place to visit another like they do with the contestants ... http://realitywrites.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/travel-plans/