Well, the Daily Collegian finally mentioned the Chef/Helga campaign:

The executive ticket write-in hopefuls who have been actively campaigning are Chef and Helga, candidates sponsored by the Monty Python Society. Their platform goals include making tuition free, moving downtown closer to campus and turning the Forum Building into a carousel.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but we’ll see how election day (today) plays out.

I saw a robin this morning on my way into the office. Considering that it was snowing pretty heavily at the time, that seemed like something of a cruel joke, just nature’s little way of saying, “April fools!” Then the snow sun came out and melted the snow. I am so confused.

You know, when I heard someone say, “it looks like the middle of a January blizzard outside,” I thought they were kidding.

Five minutes later, I’m almost convinced it was a shared delusion. The sun is shining bright, and except for the snow that fell this weekend, it looks like spring outside my office window. Winter really needs to get over itself and move on. We have.

Since my response to Nyssa’s comments on an earlier post is apparently about 650 words over the limit imposed by YACCS, I’m posting it here:

Moving home wouldn’t really be a problem. My mother, I think, would prefer it, especially since my sister has recently talked about teaching in Maryland, and not New York, upon graduation. Most of the publishing industry is centered in New York, so, for the type of job I’m looking for, moving back home (or somewhere nearby) might be the best option. But the idea of working in New York City doesn’t necessarily appeal to me, and, however much I know I could get used to it again, I’m not sure if moving back is the right choice, or the one I want to make.

Most of my friends, I think, are in Pennsylvania. If I leave State College, though, I don’t want it to be for another city in the same state. However much the idea scares me, I am looking for real change. California certainly fits that bill (and it’s certainly warmer than central PA), but I don’t know anyone there well enough to impose on them. (I mean, I’d like to think of people like you, and IMiss, and Generik, and lil’amish as friends, but it’s not as if I’ve ever actually met any of you.) My sense of geography is also hazy enough that, without looking at a map, I wouldn’t be able to say which cities are southern Cal. and which northern or where one is located with respect to another. I mentioned San Francisco because it’s one of the few cities there I’ve visited that I remember well (except, possibly, for Hollywood), it seems like an interesting place, and weather-wise it’s reportedly very mild. My friend Sharon lives in Austin, and we keep talking around the idea of me visiting. There was plenty I liked about the city the last time I was there; I chose not to move then, I think, out of a number of concerns: worry about a job, the distance I’d have to move, their unbelievably hot summer weather, and the fact that, while I like Sharon and her husband (as well as the friends of hers that I’ve met), she remains the only person in the city I know well.

The scarcity of jobs everywhere is, you’re right, a real issue. The truth is, while I don’t think I’m unemployable by any means, nobody’s beating down my door to hire me. I have a four-year-old degree and not a terrifically vast wealth of practical experience on which to draw. This is another reason why moving back to New York might be a better option. There are many more entry-level jobs in publishing available there. While they might not pay as much as I might like (given the higher cost of living in NY), the option of moving in with my parents temporarily does exist.

Right now, my chief worry is not “should I move?” so much as “do I have to move this year?” It might be better if I renew my lease and then spend the time between now and next July looking for work and housing elsewhere. That, however, might necessitate another year at my current job — quite honestly my chief reason for wanting to move.

“Confusion,” my little I Ching book tells me, “is imminent.”