So, I was browsing cars online today, and the ones I want?  Are expensive.  More than I want to pay, even used.  Depressing.  However, it's not a problem for now, because I have delayed all life-altering decisions until after I pass the PE.  Which means that in December (hopefully!) I can think about a new(ish) car, and maybe look for a new job, and really think about whether or not I want to stay in North Carolina.  (To my NC friends:  Nothing personal.  I love you all and invite you to move with me!)   It's not that I don't like NC; I do.  I just don't love it, and I don't feel that there is much holding me here.  That said, I don't know where I do want to go.  I'd go back to MA, but the cost of living scares me.  (Also, once I asked Orion if he wanted to move to Massachusetts, and he bit me.)  California is a no.  Florida is a no.  I'd move to Virginia if I could live in the Culpeper-Orange-Madison area, but the jobs in my field aren't there. 

I rode yesterday; this was after cancelling lessons (the scheduled and the make-up).  I actually just paid for the missed lesson, because my last riding lesson wasn't fun.  I was looking for the ride to do what it usually does- raise my spirits.  It didn't do that, even though I rode (and specially requested) Solie.  Riding is what I do to get away from life, and if it wasn't going to do that, I didn't want to ride.  Unfortunately, I have a show coming up.  So, I sucked it up yesterday and went.  It was a better ride, technically.  I'm still not spiritually there, and am concentrating way too much on the mechanics. 

I spent three days this week doing field sampling.  (Very hot!)  I walked in to Cool Boss's office today, and he said, "You're brown!"  (Note:  I did wear sunblock.  No burn!)  And the brown?  Extends all the way down to my feet, where I have a Teva tan.  Because I am just cool like that.