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Hi, I'm Raedyn, but everyone calls me Rae. Most of the time, I live with my husband (E), my beautiful toddler son (D), and my awesome teenage step-son (L), in our big, old, falling-apart house in Wisconsin. I was born in the South, but I was lured to the frozen tundra for graduate school, and I wouldn't have it any other way. As of mid-February, Caan, D, and I are on a one-year assignment in India (my step-son chose to stay with his mom for the year), where I'm trying desperately to finish my degree through an unreliable internet connection and a prayer. And here I thought being a graduate student mom in the States was hard... Like the wondrous ladies here at Rants from Mommyland, I blog about my adventures in writing, mommying, and living in a foreign country at http://www.muse-interrupted.blogspot.com.
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Let me tell you a secret, ya’ll. School is hard. School is work. And no amount of judgey-side-eye makes it easier. I’ve been a college student for eleven years. That’s right people, eleven. I have a toddler (D), a teen step-son (L), and a husband (E) who all depend on me to keep our household running smoothly while I teach two classes a week and try to finish my degree. I have one semester left, and if all goes according to plan (dear Maude, please let it go according to plan), I’ll soon graduate with a PhD in English. And possibly PTSD (post-traumatic student disorder). I love my life and the chances that have been afforded to me, but allow me to enumerate the reasons I sometimes have to smile and say bless your heart.*
But I have to be happy too, and making everyone call me Dr. Rae will do it quite nicely.