What a busy few weeks. A lot has been happening, what with being accepted to grad school, work, the holidays coming up and NaNoWriMo. Yeah, not doing so well on my novel actually.

Work has eased a bit as I was able to wrap up two large projects I was managing at once. I was so excited to be done with those that the following day I designed and built out a new WordPress template for the blogs we’re starting to roll out. It’s pretty nice. So nice that I might modify it and release it for public.

Speaking of which, my Modern Linguist release was so popular (for this blog anyway) that I’m thinking about updating the old WordPress templates I created and putting them out for public release. That might be my January project.

My awesome wife Jessica has been doing great Etsy sales as the holiday season hits us. She’s also been running a bunch of giveaways on her blog. I’m hoping to redesign that site too at the beginning of the year.

We’re also praying for some changes to come in the next few months. I’m excited to go to my parents’ house in California for Christmas and then head up to Portland for my little sister’s wedding just after the new year. Then I start my first masters classes toward the end of the month.

Lots going on. How are you doing?

…was just accepted into the Master of Arts in Media Studies program at The New School!

I’m pretty freaking excited about it.

I start the program in January and it’s all online–unless we move to New York, but I don’t see a ton of chance in that happening unless I get a new, well-paying job there.

Super excited!!! I am possibly co-teaching a New Media marketing online class next May term.

Busy times.

Wow.

After releasing Modern Linguist on Friday, Chris Coyier gave me a shout out on Digging Into WordPress. I got a ton of traffic from that, and I owe him some thanks. It seems like those who have taken a look at the theme really enjoy it. I had to make a few modifications after my word counts got entered into the NaNoWriMo site, but it’s working. I did find out that their API is a little slower than I had anticipated. Maybe that a future project to donate to the Office of Letters and Light.

I’m well on my way to the 10,000 words I need by the end of the week. Jessica and I attended the Southern Illinois regional kick-off write-in and I was able to get 3700-something words packed in in the first four hours of noveling. Not too shabby. I’m planning to write another couple of thousand tonight and pull ahead of where I need to be.

I am also considering prepping some of my past WordPress templates for mass release. Some of them need rewrites and I’m thinking that might be a good beginning of 2010 project. Releasing one has got me all into it.

In other news, one major project down, one to finish up. Two of my big day job projects are winding down too, which means I can devote attention to a couple of other major ones that have been waiting in the wings.

We’ve got plane tickets booked for Christmas, plans set for Thanksgiving. It just might be a good end to 2009.