for my sanity...

i sometimes question living in the mountains on days like today. I am snowed in up here...again. Not going to be able to make it to school-I am currently in the process of finding a more weather friendly vehicle-like a Subaru Outback or another four wheel drive car so that I can make it down to school. I love my life in the mountains, i don't want it to change. Can't afford to change it currently-it takes a lot of capital (loans etc) to start up somewhere new, alone, especially in a city. And I know some people have the financial meas to achieve this but I just don't. And I love my life. I love that I woke up this morning to a herd of elk outside my window-I had no idea I was in for hazardous weather conditions. It just stinks-I love school and I love the mountains. I feel it is not too much to ask to have both at the same time. I take this time to write and read while the snow falls lightly but ever s steadily outside...I know I can give up and call it quite I just don't know what good this really does anyone. I don't like missing school, I know my professors do not particularly like to have a student who misses class especially in graduate school where the climate is mediated by the discussion and vice versa. But I am a good student, passionate about my work, and learning to do that work through the University of Denver and the HCOM department. It is better than I could have expected. Dr. Calafell-wow! She is so smart and yet understated at the same time, I love that she questions and admits she has to read things bunches of times before getting them. That's real. And the whole department-their commitment to the now and doing things that really matter here and now-that's the kind of life I really love and admire. So with that I will "get back to work" and enjoy the fact that my here and now happens to be snowed in on a mountain.