I get to work early…really early, usually around 5:45 or 6 a.m. I work 10 hour days so I can have 3 day weekends. There aren’t a lot of people who do that at this place but it is available to us and I like the flexible schedule. I get a lot done on my Fridays.

So, I’m sitting here this morning and I can hear the receptionist’s phone ringing. It’s been ringing all morning and I have begun to wonder who would be calling at 6 a.m. and keep calling? It’s obvious that no one is there. Then again, people forget that Arizona isn’t on Daylight Savings and they may think it’s an hour later here than it really is if they’re calling from the east coast or something.

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At this point, most of us have given up hope of precipitation for precipitation’s sake. We’re holding out for the monsoon season to begin in a few weeks. Hopefully this will be a wet season. I’m tired of bloody noses, scaly skin, and the wind kicking up dust that makes my asthma knock me out. I want some rain!!!

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When I lived in London, the thing I missed about Arizona was the sun. The sun shines here so much that you miss it when it’s gone. Even here, in the mountains where it rains and snows, we get over 300 days of sunshine a year. What I’m missing about London, though, is the rainy drizzle that makes everything green. We could use some of that. If Seattle or London could bottle that up, they’d make a lot of money.

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I’m in a weird limbo place right now, I think. I’m concentrating on getting through these next few weeks in school (it’s going to be rough) and yet I feel like a kid who wants her summer vacation. I miss those.

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I recently heard a segment on NPR that interviewed these two women in their 90s who had just gotten their undergraduate degrees. Their main message was that it’s never to late. I was starting to feel old in my classes. I guess at 35, I’m still a youngster. :-)

And they are right…it’s never to late to pursue your dreams.