Sam Goldsmith's Index of Things That (Probably) Will and Will Not Happen

Ciao, Tutti!

For all those who are huddled in anticipation of the release of my post-graduation plans, I've compiled a list of probablies regarding ideas I'd been having and goals I've wished to pursue. Seriously, though, being asked what I plan to do after school is simultaneously the most stressful, exciting, and trite question in the entire world... it fills me with mixed feelings.

But what I want to do most of all is heroine... wait, did I spell it like a drug or a female hero?

That's a terrible pun, folks. Don't write like me.

Index of Probablies

WILL: Have my first East Coast Passover Seder with my cousin Alana and her friends and family.

WILL NOT: Tour Europe with Flaming Fire.

WILL NOT: Stay in New York for any part of the summer.

WILL: Begin classes for my TESOL certification in order to teach English abroad, starting May 10th.

WILL NOT: Attend NYU graduation ceremonies, which start May 11.

WILL: Walk the 13-mile-or-so length of Manhattan Island before I leave New York, even though my mother has an irrational fear that it is unsafe.

WILL NOT: Get mugged. Seriously.

WILL: Have my best semester academically ever, again.

WILL: Play pieces in at least two other people's recitals.

WILL NOT: Work at summer camp in El Cerrito as I have the past 3 summers, at least for the same amount of time as in the past. It's looking more and more like I don't have the 8 weeks I need to commit to be a full-time counselor.

WILL: Travel, within the states. I think my friend Courtney has gotten to me. I have events that would take me to Michigan, North Carolina, Yosemite, and even back to ugly old New York City.

WILL NOT: Ever warm up to New York City.

WILL: Continue to submit short stories, now to non-NYU affiliated journals. Opium and Bellevue Literary Reviews seem like good starting points, especially the BLR's contest.

WILL NOT: Know how I fared in the BLR's contest until December of this year.

WILL: Begin applying for English teaching jobs in Istanbul, Turkey, starting June.

WILL: Move to Turkey in mid-late August to stay for the year.

WILL: Apply for graduate school at some point once I'm done teaching in Turkey.

WILL NOT: Think farther ahead than that.

WILL NOT: Give Dr. Schroeder the benefit of the doubt anymore.

WILL NOT: Look back with regret.



-Sam goldsmith