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I enrolled in two courses this term and, boy howdy, I sure am creating some space under my shrink wrap. One of the courses is "writing intensive" and the other is just plain cool and awesome and let's me work with a not-for-profit and call it a class assignment.

I am also, simultaneously, trying to lay-in some serious ground work on the independent study I want to do over the summer with the professor for the plain cool and awesome class. We/I am going to try to develop a short writing assignment I completed for another of his courses from two terms ago into a full paper.  At the time, he had encouraged me to consider publishing it and offered to supervise my efforts as part of an independent study.  But work, and winter, and oh-my-gosh-that-will-be-so-much-work! However, since I'm trying to "create space" to prepare for the second Master's program I'll be starting in the fall, I decided to go for it.  When I approached him last week, he commented that he was really disappointed I hadn't been more enthusiastic about it at the time b/c he thought it was such a good idea.

While it is still just as much work as it was before and nothing else in my life has changed besides the weather, the more I think about writing this paper, the more excited I am.  How cool would it be to be published in multiple genres: molecular biology and rhetoric!

Truly, my genius knows no bounds.