Still High

Here at the house of Chai, we are still overjoyed by yesterday's news. K and I have even started talking bits and pieces about the apartment she'll be looking for/moving to as part of her new job. She is so excited, and rightly so.

In brief, it's a job in a private school, something none of us ever considered, but which came about because someone she knew knew about the opening. It's a high school on a beautiful campus, roughly forty minutes from here in a lovely area of New Jersey. (Yes, there are lovely areas in New Jersey!) She could commute from here, but it's time for her to be on her own, and I know I would feel much, much better knowing she has a shorter drive in bad weather. She'll start in September, and in the meantime, she'll keep the museum job she has now and live at home.

For right now, I'm just glad we have power, since there are many areas nearby without. We're in day two of the three or four day storm that comes with high winds and heavy rain. It's very creepy out there; wind is the weather that actually frightens me the most, and I hate hearing the noises it makes outside and against the house. K and I went out to pick up sushi a little while ago, and while I was waiting for her in the car, the wind was making the car rock back and forth. *shiver*

Thanks for all your wonderful comments and congratulations!