Great advice and direction PIP. Thank you. Since acquiring the CSEL, I haven't even taken a break and have been burying myself in the FAR/AIM and CFI Oral. I still need to purchase the FOI which I assume is vital to accomplishing the ticket(s).
The idea of sharing ground time is awesome with other CFI students. I will have to find out if there is anyone in the area at the same point I am. As far as the right seat goes...shouldn't be too much of a problem as I asked my instructor during commercial ops if I could fly from the right seat periodically. So that transition should be fairly easy.
One of the major questions that I have always had though is whether or not I should go for my CMEL prior to getting into the CFI training? Outside of teaching and the very few and far between Part 135 Single-Engine Ops company (that is probably really difficult to get into), is the CMEL something I should be doing right now instead?