I wrote a few days ago that my bones were optimistic. What I'd like to know now is what exactly they were optimistic about. I received a letter from the school today informing me that I was not accepted into the program. I'm not sure how I fell short. After reading the thing I went for a run. I was hoping for a victory run but now I'm thinking that I'm stuck in this job for another year. I don't know where else to go. I don't want another fall filled with buckets of wet leaves in a job with no future. Man.

No big surprise here, my American dialect is 55% Yankee and 35% standard American English. Try it for yourself.

Do you want to know really why we are in Iraq? Go read this.

I took the motorcycle out for a ride to North Bend, Snoqualmie, Fall City and Issaquah yesterday after the rain mainly subsided. I had to get something out of my trailer and I'm helping with the Mt. Si Relay today, so I scouted the area. Here is a picture of Snoqualmie Falls.

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What a glamorous job I have.

I dropped my 41 to 43 minute run time to 38:30 today.

Ok. How did I do? All right I think, but I don't have anything to compare it to. I don't know how the other candidates did. Whether I get in is determined by a number of variables, the interview being just one. I could have mentioned taking care of Mom more but I know that now in hindsight. I think I did well in the reading comprehension and the math segment but I didn't have time to go back and check my work. I think that some of the people with whom I did my clinical observations were rooting for me in the interview. That was heartening. I find out at the end of April or the beginning of May whether I'm accepted. As I wrote to a friend recently, "my bones are optimistic."

I'm not so optimistic about the weather. After our Saturday morning run I went to Fall City to retrieve the bike. It is now sort of protected by my old motorcycle cover which was shredded by the elements. I used duct tape to patch it up until I can get a better one. I'm hoping that the sorry look of the cover will dissuade anyone from thinking that there is something nice underneath. We have been getting showers at a pretty consistent 42-48 degrees lately. It does get a bit warmer during midday, but not by much. What happened to that 65 degrees?

Well, this is it. After today I can exhale. My interview for the program is in a few hours. I started working for this last year in the spring. That, along with the course work I completed many years ago at UMass, has gotten me this far. Even though I say I don't have many more options, I really could if I consider them all. I want this option to open, that's all. And even though this is not IT, it will be part of a better course. May all the planets and stars be in place.

This time change is nice in a way, but.... This evening I got back from running in Redmond, warmed up something to eat, sat down with my computer and food and after a little while I looked up to see that it was already after 9. What the hell?...oh. The extended daylight helped with the run today. I enjoyed that. But tomorrow morning is going to suck because I have to get up at a half past nothing to get into work for 6:30. My body doesn't know anything about this time change thing, so it will be all pissy about getting up an hour earlier. We have natural built in clocks for a reason. It has to do with the length of the day and our biological relationship to the earth, but we can't leave well enough alone. I was looking for a good quote to highlight our cooperation with the earth but couldn't find one just now. We aren't so separate from not-self (or each other for that matter).