Against the wind

Listening to Bob Seger the other night I got a little misty thinking back to my time in California this past summer. Sometimes I think I'm an idiot for ever leaving. But it's been five months and I'm not going to dwell in the past.

Recently I've been likening myself to Seger's Against the Wind... it seems things are just not coming into manageable groups and everything's being thrown at me at once... recurring knee problems limiting my training and making me second guess what I can handle weekly, emotional struggles with being back at home, not having a job, greeting the first year with no clear schedule after four years of a busy and set day-to-day outlook.

But I've applied to two wildlife jobs with the Park Service and Fish & Wildlife, looked over over a hundred others, put my name in at a temp agency, and refuse to give up.

I'm young and strong and running against the wind, but after four years in the Champlain Valley I'm used to it by now. And I will prevail.