It sank in this morning.

The Fall 2007 schedule of classes was released and I didn’t get an email with my SSN-designated start time. I am no longer a student as of next month. I’m not going to be taking any more classes — and damn it, there are some AMAZING ones next fall — and I’m embarking upon the real world. How fraught with irony that is! I so desperately want to do things for myself, to write for myself, have time to myself, but I’m realizing I’m going to desperately miss being a student! That makes me really determined to get a Master’s in something. English, preferably. In a few years, preferably (as in not anytime soon).

Bah. It’s sort of… an odd sensation. Feeling both gladdened and depressed by something this huge…