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KC Redding-Gonzalez

KC Redding-Gonzalez
Location
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Birthday
October 28
Bio
A writer of Horror fiction and certified cat wrangler, KC has a BA degree in English/Professional and Technical Writing from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She writes this blog in her book-infested garret to exorcise the evil spirits of co-workers past, talk to real (visible) people, and avoid cleaning the layers of dust which five years of undergraduate study allowed to collect on twelve bookcases, three cats and one very patient husband.

OCTOBER 3, 2012 8:35PM

Zombie-Vision: Digging Out From a Senior Semester

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I don’t remember falling into any open holes, but now that mid-term is almost upon me, I have a real clear view of what the world must look like to a Zombie:

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 Something happened on my way to another post after my last one: I made the decision to go for broke and try to graduate this semester. I figured since the world is predicted to end in December 2012, and here I am broke and world weary, at a professional crossroads and eager to move on, maybe it would be a good thing to end my undergraduate career by Christmas. So I have been totally immersed since August, buried in two luscious 4000-level senior seminar classes in English, preparing my Professional Technical Writing portfolio, and laboring away at an exciting job in retail.

Needless to say, things have been – well, monstrous. Everything kind of slid into limbo while I analyze each day to see whether I am supposed to eat, sleep, write, read, or make change – and in what order.  My sanity is frayed, and I am just now hitting that sweet spot in the semester when everything takes on a kind of surreal fuzziness and term papers flow like honey from my keyboard. Still, I harbor several posts-to-be in my Draft folder, and caress my fond memories of more regular blogging than has been possible lately.

Things will change… Life will return to normal and writing will resume. I just thought the curious deserved an explanation at my sudden silence. I apparently fell into an academic hole. But the good news is that it is just a semester. If the world hasn’t ended by December 21st or 23rd I will be back in full force, or maybe in lesser force until then. I shall dig out. And, I shall have my walking papers… Something every Zombie needs.

 

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I know the zombie time hole all too well,kc. I may be in one right now. Hang in there, get rest and do what you need to. I know ill be here when you're ready to post again.