My Next Plan...

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 So~

With DELTA module one dead to me (until I get the results in 6-8 weeks), Imma have to plan my next steps.

I have my summer MFA classes that continue for another few weeks. I definitely need to polish up some poems for those workshops.

Then there's a free little MFA summer workshop thing I joined that I want to create more work in.

My wedding ceremony August 6th, but even before that I have to go to Henan for my husband to be the best man at his friend's wedding at the end of June. So I might be in Henan from the end of June through August. Living with my husband's second sister... sweet lady, but I'm not a fan of her kids or living with someone else for that long.

I'd rather waste away at a hotel for a month and blow through my savings.

Which reminds me, my wedding isn't even put together yet. We just chose a host the other day (Chinese weddings have a host, it seems like they... announce the couple and everything?) and still have to choose the decorations. So we have the venue and the host and that is it. There are dresses (3?!) to pick out, a suit for the dudeman, the decorations, how to set-up a video call for my family to watch the ceremony, the food (no western wedding cake, I'm still pretty uppity about that), and the photographer...and the invites! We have to send the invites with their boxes of... stuff. Wedding invitations in China come with candy nd a box of cigarettes. I've tried to talk the hubs out of the cigarette sending and just subbing in good chocolate instead, but we can't forgo tradition *cue eyeroll* 

Apparently there will be quite a few people at our wedding? It's a very social event here in China. Hundreds of people?

Not an emoji in the world to accurately express what this feels like. 

Now, before any of this, I need to finish my teaching classes (three more weeks, THREE MORE WEEKS) and fix the issue I'm having with my summer MFA payment (please come to me tax return, I need you) and the problem that spontaneously popped up with my DELTA module two set-up. The tutor I had lined up cancelled saying they would be too busy, so now I have to find someone else ASAP or switch to the huge essay project for module three and then come back to module two in spring 2022.

So basically... I need to put together a plan for my MFA classes, MFA payment, plan my wedding, organize and send wedding invites, travel, find a DELTA tutor or postpone to module three, write poems, and finish my teaching classes.

I literally can not wait for June like... 27th. Teaching classes will be done for a bit, I'll have the DELTA issue settled by then (hopefully), the MFA payment issue will be settled (life willing), and I'll be packing up to go to Henan for a bit.

Time really does fix everything hahahaa

Hopefully this time I don't get incredibly ill from the food there. I think I'll just eat steamed veggies and hulatang the whole time. Save myself, if I can 😰

I'mma make a schedule later. Maybe tonight?

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