There are a few spots along the road to work that I’ve been thinking about photographing some day. The problem is, when they are so readily available, you just keep putting it off. So day after day, I drive past and think that I should photograph that… Amazingly, today was the day. I stopped and took the pictures. When I walked back to the car, I was chased by a couple of mosquitoes. It’s 7 October, and we still have mosquitoes around! This speaks volumes of how warm the autumn has been. It got me worried about the winter. We’ve had two mild winters in a row, with all that it entails – no extreme cold weather, no long periods of cold weather, and not much snow. If we get a third such winter, I will seriously be considering of moving. If anyone in Alaska happens to be reading this and can offer a job, please do contact me! I hold a master’s degree in translation, primary language English and secondary Swedish, and my native language is Finnish. A pretty useful combination in Alaska, huh? This degree somehow has earned me a job as a Lotus Domino Administrator and I even have a funky certificate from IBM to prove that I’m qualified for the job. I don’t quite feel like I am, but surely a certificate is more important than practical skills… not? If there are no jobs in these areas, I’m willing to take up gardening. Or anything, really.
Anyway, those mosquitoes then. I’m sure there are more of them in Alaska than here. I don’t care. What won’t a girl suffer for sub-zero temperatures and a thick snow cover?
