November 9, 2009

  • 28 Days Left in the Semester...

    "28 Days Left in the Semester", the dry erase board read.  Every day I pass by it, I'm reminded that counting down until you leave a place for forever isn't the way to live.  Graduating and job hunting is scary business.

    I was walking to class about a week ago just as the sun was peaking out above the power plant.  We must have had a nice freeze, because all the cars in the lot had beautiful patterns of frost crystals spread across them.  I've never seen sublimation before in the wild, so to speak, but as the sun hit the ice crystals on those cars, the ice didn't melt but instead turned to steam and drifted up.  It was really weird to see steam coming off of cold, parked cars when the air was cold enough for me to see my own, heated breath.
    I wish I had taken a picture.