could stand the weather

My usual walk with the dog happens around 7:30 in the evening. Yesterday evening, we went for our daily stroll just after the last of the rain came through. I was in shorts and a T-shirt and sandals and it was blustery cold and misting, and though I shivered for most of the walk, it felt good nonetheless after being in a stuffy condo all day on top of feverishly heating up due to my time of the month - I have a feeling my menopausal hot flashes are going to be a royal bitch. I saw a leopard-skin coat, soaked and muddy, lying in the field next to the middle school. I could hear the gospel singers belting it out during an evening church service in the high school.

Today, I had two phone interviews in between the rainstorms. The first interview with the NY company went quite well, and I've made it to writing assessment stage. The second interview with the Chicago company didn't go as well, and I suspect they were not impressed with me, which is okay actually, as I wasn't overly impressed with them either. It sounds eerily like the Chicago version of what I just left.

I've been working through a book called Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith, and though I don't particularly like the storyline or this one character called Posy, she really gets on my nerves, all the history and conjecture about who really wrote the plays is juicy reading. And then I came across this quote in the book, when it was really thundering like mad outside - enough to scare the cat and the dog, and I love this quote, and it makes me all the more irritated that TWU still hasn't made up its mind about whether or not I'm fit to partake of their library science master's program:

"I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy. It is the best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. If it is important to know who wrote Shakespeare's plays, if it is important to find lost plays or poetry, I believe there will be a record, and by some miracle, someone will find it."