At Last!

I have been accepted to the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.

All that obsessing about not-knowing, all that feeling imobilized by the uncertainty of my future has been replaced with the sincere relief that against all odds, everything is going to be okay. I now realize that while trying desperately to focus all of my obsessive worry on the not-knowing, what I was really worried about was that I might not be accepted anywhere; something it wasn't possible for me to admit to myself until now.

While in one sense the single acceptance changes nothing - we could still go anywhere next year - in another sense it changes everything - we will be going somewhere.