So just a quick update on the college front, since I promised a few of you I'd keep you posted when I knew something.

Essentially, I'm going to wait until the summer to start classes. I know this sounds like a cop-out, or that I'm backing out again, but really, it's not, and I actually owe you guys for it not being so for once :-)

Basically what's happened is ... well, it's EXTREMELY complicated. Life happened, again. The college never sent me the college prep package they were supposed to send, my student ID is locked to a specific advisor at my old college so I have to get in touch with him. There's more to it than that.

On top of that one of my mother's dear friends has cancer, and they haven't given her very long, so that's just a little bit hard on all of us, even though I don't even know her that well.

Like I said: it's complicated.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this semester and try and figure out every avenue I can find to pay for college, through grants, scholarships, whatever it takes, but I do not want to take out a student loan if I can avoid it. That's a last resort as far as I'm concerned.

This also gives me more time to focus on my writing for now. When I go back I plan on going full-time, taking as many classes as my financial aid allows. I was so depressed for so long that I didn't give a mouse's diddy about anyone or anything, least of all myself.

TopShelf has, in many, many ways, helped me to get beyond that, and I can never express in words how much that means to me. I feel like I have my life back. All that's left is to start undoing the damage. :-)

Love,
~Zoe