As some of you may remember I have taken this year off to go back to school. I went over to the university yesterday to see what I can do about registering for classes. The admissions office told me that my initial registration with the school was as a graduate student so I had to work through that office. Another pro forma speech. (Note: I've been in that office many, many, times and this is the first time any of the clerks have mentioned the grad school office.)

It took a while to find the office. The school has no updated maps and my goal has moved since I first found it. I finally found it tucked into a corner of the School of Nursing. Once I got in to talk to the program coordinator I learned that the school has a new Masters level course, Master of Arts in Teaching. It's a 16 month program which ends up giving me a masters program. Unfortunately it doesn't start until October and it will run until May of 2012. I have only set aside this year for getting a certificate.

It is pretty intensive. It runs in three 8 week terms through the winter and 2 4 week terms next summer. The second year runs from August to May and is only three classes

I don't know what Wakana will say to that. She's willing to let me "lay back" this year but I doubt she'll agree to two years of poverty.