It is snowing, not an unprecedented event here at my little house in the woods. It is, however, spring, and yet we are expected to get 8-10 inches of snow tonight I hope no one expects me to shovel. I stopped shoveling weeks ago, once we had a 65 degree day. Ahh, Northern Lower Michigan!
I did pick up a camera to point it at the snow and some twiggy things. It is the first time that I picked a camera up in three weeks except to dust around them. They still worked, which might be a good sign. What I did think about is that I have taken these photos before so this isn't the first time you have seen these photos or ones like them. I like the view down my road and the trees and twigs. This may be the last time I take snow pictures around here, and I do realize that I will miss these views from my house in the woods.
It isn't like I am moving to Florida or some weird place like that. I haven't applied to anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. Part of it is preference, but part of it is just opportunity. I have crossed out Texas as a preferred state, and there hasn't been much else. I have applied and I have been unceremoniously "dinged" and rejected and told I was pond scum. I am sure that is what the letters said that told me that I was foolish to ever think I could work at their esteemed institution, not that I would ever take these rejections personally or anything like that. It is that ugly stage of the search--lots of applications out there and lots of waiting as the sorting hat makes sense of them all.
I am not yet worried. Well, maybe a tiny tiny bit. What is challenging is that I have an appealing Plan B and Plan C and that makes me worry less about Plan A. I know that this makes little sense, but hopefully it will, even to me. I am keeping a positive outlook and still giving it the ol' college try as I get up and brush myself off and I get on the horse again and try try again and stuff like that.
In the meantime, I am enjoying the snow, and not just because I am enjoying the view. It might mean that we have our 6th snow day of the semester and I can sleep in.
