Thanks I needed that

I just heard back this week that I've been accepted to present a selection of my poetry and a paper of mine on Jack Kerouac's prose structure and bebop at the Sigma Tau Delta conference in Louisville, KY. I needed that. All this waiting around for graduate program info has been starting to whittle away at my confidence and general sense of well being. Between this period and the GRE, I am really starting to wonder why anyone bothers with graduate school. I guess you really have to want to go. Regardless, I'm looking forward to heading off to Louisville in March and hope to get more out of this conference than I did last year's in Pittsburgh. Now, I just have to find the money ...