maralorelei
maralorelei
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I am an August graduate with a Master's in English Generalist degree--continued from the same school I graduated from in May 2007 with my Bachelor's in English, concentration in film studies, minor in Communications Media--Indiana University of PA in Indiana, PA--the same school I flunked out of in 1989 after a disastrous first start. I conquered the demons of failure and I am victorious!
I am grateful for the release from the stress of being in school for I am able to finally focus for on my family--my husband and our ten-year old son. I miss them when they are at work and school during the day when I am here alone. At least the three cats we love are here all the time to keep all of us from being lonely!
What I plan to do with my degrees is find a position as a professor of introductory English in a community college or online school. However, I have physical problems and depression that are stopping me from pursuing this path. Doctors are searching for ways to get be back into peak performance, so I hope and pray that by this time next year I will be grading papers and being called Mrs. Ferguson--or Lori--by my students. I will feel much better when I am gainfully employed again and a productive member of society once more. I am a wonderful support to people that I know online and around me, but all the love I give people does not put food on the table. I have skills in writing and interpreting film and literature that I should be sharing with people and my illnesses are robbing us of that, and this demon fibromyalgia and whatever problems are plaguing me and causing me to spend most of my days in bed must be eradicated!
Besides my plans for becoming a professor and of course, my family, the most important thing to know about me is that I am at heart a writer. I want to write novels, short-stories, non-fiction essays and memoir, but mostly I dream of an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It can happen, if I believe enough and work hard enough! Matt Damon and Ben Affleck--two men near my age--won one, so there is a chance for me, too!
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