And So It Starts...

Hey team, sorry for the lack of posts lately.

Although you'd certainly be forgiven for thinking I'd stopped writing either because the Mets suck or because they've become a complete sideshow in the past week between Johan's civil suit and third degree assault-gate, the dry spell actually has nothing to do with general disgust for the subject at hand.

No, the reason I've stopped writing is that at long last, the Glass Man is applying to business school.

It's been a long time coming. When I graduated I was sure I'd put in two years as a paralegal and be on my way to law school. In the course of those two years I realized that I didn't want to be a lawyer, that business was more interesting for me.

It took a little while longer to get my act together on the GMAT, but I finally got that out of the way last summer. Shortly afterward I committed to a job at my company for two more years; at present it's one down one to go.

The application process for business school, while brutal, is almost certainly more fun than watching the Mets right now. The trickiest part is also the most interesting: each school requires you to write 2-4 essays about various topics, some of which have overlapping themes, but none of which are carbon copies of one another.

It's a lot of work, particularly when you decide to apply to as many as eight schools (four are definites, four are maybes) and you make a goal of getting in as many first round applications as possible.

None of which means I've forgotten about the trusty blog, quite the contrary actually. My work here has gotten several mentions in my essays and in the rest of the applications under the extracurricular activities section.

I will say it's an open question what going to business school will mean for the future of the blog. Grad school has deprived us of Y2K legends like Sippy Momo and Cheddar Ben, and in truth I don't know if I'll be able to handle my blogger duties on top of schoolwork each night.

But I suppose we'll cross the bridge when we come to it; I'm not going to school for another year so until then it's just more of the same misery with the Mets.

At this point they should really just drop all pretenses of contending this year and focus on playing the kids, assuming they're ready and won't lose confidence by playing at this level.

Anyway, I'll try to write more regularly the rest of this week. As for now... there are essays to write and a game to tune in and out of. New Mets!

- A.F.O.M.G.