So if you've been reading, you know that one of my goals is to go on to graduate school to find some kind of secondary degree that would validate my on-the-way degree... meaning, if you throw a Doctor in front of my name, would I get more respect?
Eh. To be seen.
But more importantly, I think it's time to pull up some roots. I'm looking heavily at Mizzou and UNT for further education in journalism and mass communications. Should I pick up my life and make the drive in my cute white Scion to Texas or Missouri, leaving all of my friends and family behind? Or should I accept that going there would be jumping to a different tree, a lower branch, and at the end of the day if all I'm looking for is being able to write, would trying to make it big make me a sell-out?
Which has opened a whole world of questions up to me, mostly asked late at night when just the light of my glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling are judging me. What do I want in Washington DC or New York? Are those just symbolism for "making it"? Would moving there help me become a big author? Of course not. But maybe the opportunities might.
I've been lucky with a great family and fantastic friends and a wonderful hometown. Am I leaving because I think I can find better, even though I know I can't?
Or am I planning on leaving to see what I'm made of without the fall-back of my safety nets behind me?
Stay tuned.
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