This past Saturday I spent four hours taking the Scholastic Leadership Licensure Assessment as an addendum to my Master’s Degree in Administration. The test was grueling but I’ve become a fairly decent standardized test taker over the years, so my studying and pacing habits paid off.
The first part of the test was 100 multiple choice questions, but the second was something I haven’t done since the days of my English degree exams: a 100 minute essay set! I was excited to put my linguistic athleticism back to the test, but I forgot how much I rely on typing now rather than handwriting.
Wow. My hand got sore very quickly.
I had to have strategic wrist resting sessions between each of the seven questions. At first, my script was neat and orderly on each page, but by the last of the twelve it had become manic and appeared to be yelling back at me to stop already.
Needless to say, it was making me think of one thing as I wrote: how much I need to buy some nice new pens for GKCWP before Monday. 
I’m so excited to begin writing for myself again. I’ve spent the past 18 months writing mainly for my Master’s with only periodic blog entries to belay my withering writer’s soul. Even with the blog, I’ve changed the way I write now. I wonder what the ISI will bring into the equation. How will I write differently after the Summer Institute?
