On my last full day in Maryland I awaited the arrival of some old friends. While I waited I took advantage of the lovely weather and substandard turkey I bought earlier in the week. I sat outside and read The Blind Assassin for the second time....That Margaret Atwood, she sure knows how to write a book. Other books I've read lately? Waiting by Ha Jin, White Noise Don Delilio, Conception by I forget, Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen, a slew of Deborah Knott mysteries by Margaret Maron, Body Surfing by Anita Shreve, another V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretski, hmmm I think there are others.
Though I can't see it myself I know that in the photograph below there is a fox.
It is not warm in Indiana. Yesterday it was sort of warm but today it's just cold. I don't like it. I've started to apply for jobs in Bloomington but I'm also wondering if this is the best course of action. Confusion abounds. Maybe I should finally move to Philadelphia (I've talked about it for nearly five years) or back to the Mid-Hudson Valley region (so very pretty). But then I could move anywhere. It's a matter of what kind of job I want. Is it about having the right job or being in the right place? Working, of course, with the assumption that I couldn't possibly have both.
On my last full day in Maryland I awaited the arrival of some old friends. While I waited I took advantage of the lovely weather and substandard turkey I bought earlier in the week. I sat outside and read The Blind Assassin for the second time....That Margaret Atwood, she sure knows how to write a book. Other books I've read lately? Waiting by Ha Jin, White Noise Don Delilio, Conception by I forget, Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen, a slew of Deborah Knott mysteries by Margaret Maron, Body Surfing by Anita Shreve, another V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretski, hmmm I think there are others.
Though I can't see it myself I know that in the photograph below there is a fox.
It is not warm in Indiana. Yesterday it was sort of warm but today it's just cold. I don't like it. I've started to apply for jobs in Bloomington but I'm also wondering if this is the best course of action. Confusion abounds. Maybe I should finally move to Philadelphia (I've talked about it for nearly five years) or back to the Mid-Hudson Valley region (so very pretty). But then I could move anywhere. It's a matter of what kind of job I want. Is it about having the right job or being in the right place? Working, of course, with the assumption that I couldn't possibly have both.
5 comments:
Move to Philadelphia.
Then I can live vicariously through you.
Also, as you know, Bucks County has some Hudson Valley qualities. Though it's not quite the same.
No, it's not quite the same. The Hudson Valley still has some real country country...whereas Bucks County has a lot of classy rich folks' estates and then a lot of McMansions. Or this is what I recall...that the pretty roads were the ones rich people lived off of...and everywhere else was pretty over developed and stupid.
If you're not the 1 Philly vote I've gotten so far, vote.
I just voted, now it looks like Philly has 7, unless I made that up.
There are still farms out there, I swear. Where Will's parents live is very pretty, but still, no Hudson Valley. I am a big fan of upstate NY.
If history has taught us anything, it is that you should move to Philadelphia... I hold this truth to be self evident. -Alex
Well, tomorrow we shall know the following:
1) what the poll results are (I'm thinking that unless the Hudson Valley gets some ringers it's going to be Philly)
2) Whether the one job I've interviewed for in Bloomington hires me.
Extrapolate from there about my next step.
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