The little earthquakes yesterday were from the huge construction machines making a road behind my apartment. I had seen them but didnt make the connection to my walls shaking.

Well, as though destiny was sympathetic to my crummy day, I got a bit of great news today.

I was accepted into the Intermedia graduate program at Arizona State University. I was born in the city, grew up in the forests, did high school in the suburbs, college in the agricultural great plains, lived a year on a sub-tropical mountain island, and now will pursue my graduate degree in the unspeakably vast American desert. I am filled with biome power!

I could hardly contain my happiness this morning… my lessons were overly energetic. But they were good! And now the sun shines on the blooming magnolia tree in the courtyard! HOORAY FOR GOOD LIFE!