In typical Ohio fashion, it is winter (and will be for a long time) and it is snowing, in typical Robin fashion, I am hoping for a snow day tomorrow, and in typical (sigh) Cincinnati fashion, we have somehow neglected to salt the roads until after it started snowing.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, a fiendish blizzard, and a week full of snow days. However, the fact that ambulances and fire trucks have passed under my window, sirens blaring, six times in the last three hours is a concern. Snow days are great, but I’d prefer people not die from preventable road conditions. (Descending from soapbox…)
My roommate, who is from Hawaii (although not racially Hawaiian), makes the whole situation a lot more fun – she reminds me of the excitement of snow that native Ohioans so often forget. This amnesia is perhaps the result of stepping into one too many slush puddles or cursing when the car doesn’t start when you’re already running late. Anyways, in the spirit of the day, we went outside and took some pictures and felt bad for all the people stuck in traffic on our busy street.
Love for snow aside, the search for meaningful employment in a warmer climate continues. Most of the jobs I find that seem relevant to my studies are still in New York, but there have been others, so I am hopeful. There was even a job requiring knowledge of ethnomusicology (but not a Ph.D.) in South Carolina. It’s not that I don’t want to live in New York, but rather that I want to live somewhere cheaper and warmer. The flourishing arts community of New York is attractive, however.
As this post was written, school was cancelled for the afternoon, which lends some hope that we may have a day off tomorrow. Meaning…I could catch up on homework, get ahead on my research projects, finally translate the poetry that has been sitting on my desk for two weeks, and so many other things!
Looking out my window, I see that the university buildings (about 100 yards away) are now barely visible. Hooray! I’d be crossing my fingers, but then I couldn’t do my counterpoint homework.
