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I just completed and submitted my application for the MFA program at San Francisco State (one day before the deadline!). Phew!

Regardless of whether I get in (chances are very very very very slim), it was a heartening if exhausting lesson in asking for help and getting it. My undergraduate advisor, who I'd lost touch with for about six years, cheerfully wrote a letter of recommendation, as did local poet-mentor Sarah Rosenthal, despite the fact that I asked both of them about a week before Christmas. I would have killed me had I been in their shoes. Sarah also took quite a bit of time out of her incredibly hectic life to critique my statement of purpose and help me put the poems in my writing sample into a strategic order. I doubt either Sarah or George (my undergrad advisor) ever has or ever will read my blog, but just in case: THANK YOU SARAH AND GEORGE!

Anyhow, all of this to say sorry for the long silence. I promised myself I wouldn't let blogging distract me, and I kept my promise. It worked. I imagine that if I am someday reincarnated as even blue-green algae, I will still be able to recite every word in my statement of purpose.