I am ready for the heat to die down. We had one morning where it was actually a bit cool right at sunrise and it made me emotional.

My job has been difficult, but my search for something different in my very niche field yielded no results. Far fewer jobs out there than I remember seeing even just last year. There are budget cuts where I work on the horizon where they are only filling critical positions and just letting multiple positions remain vacant. It looks like I’ll doing the work of two people for the foreseeable future.