I just got word that I’ve been accepted in the Masters of Library and Information Science program at SJSU — my future as a golf-club-wielding writing-teacher/ teacher-writer librarian is coming into focus. It’s an online program with some hybrid coursework (some face-time added to the online program) offered through SJSU at CSUF. Carin Meister is going through the same program and we have pledged to keep one another company and on pace.

Some of the work is conducted utilizing Second Life ; I’m pretty excited about that.

My goal is to go slow, very slow, during the school year, and to pile it on during the summer. I’d like to finish the 43 units inside of four years…11 units a year? Three units a semester during the teaching year, and 4-6 during the summer?

I’ll keep you posted. Maddy likes this vision for my future. She said, “Nothing bad ever happens in a library — except when the Colonel got hit with a candlestick…” Perhaps she’s forgotten about Columbine. It feels funny for her to be worried about me, when I’m the one who worries about her — but I guess there’s no protecting the ones we love. We all live in the same world — and the key word there is “live.”