Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Just one more week. Just one.

Although this semester is coming to a close and Rebecca has two of her three finals first thing Monday morning, the next worst thing is MFA applications for me, for which I feel completely unprepared and overwhelmed by the competition I'm up against. I'm applying to seven schools; honestly, I don't expect to get into any.

Classes officially finished on Thursday, but things weren't done for us until late Friday night. Rebecca was still working on her Thesis proposal paper (which was supposed to be finished on Wednesday, but her advisor keeps giving her new comments) when we got a call asking us if we were coming to the Ward Christmas dinner. Which I had forgot about. Which I was supposed to read something for. So we dropped what we were doing, ran over to the church from campus and ate a small amount of food and then left after it was over to go back to homework/projects/studying.

Stress is a funny thing. For some people, it pushes them to do better. For others, it causes them to shut down. I feel like stress is usually something that gets my energy pumped up and I do better. However, this week has really shut us both down. But both of us are resilient people and we'll be just fine and make it through this next week. And if I don't get into any good Master's programs, so what? Right?

Well, we just wanted everyone to know that we're still alive and kicking; hopefully weather will be good and we'll be able to make a safe drive to Virigina this coming weekend.