Today I finished up the conference. I had more fun networking than I ever have before. I really enjoyed myself, despite my previous expectations. It was very nice. There are so many places I could work, and so many things I'm interested in. There's curriculum, and teaching, and home education, and mainly I just want to be a mom and raise my own family instead of raising other people's kids. And then, of course, there's always the tantalizing option of doing a Ph.D. overseas (say, Oxford or Cambridge).
As I was going down the escalator into the metro, the sun was shining, and I was going from the light down into the dark of the metro. The wind picked up just then, and blew thousands of tiny red and orange leaves into the air and then down on those of us on the escalator. It was like a light snowstorm of orange and red, and the light caught the colors as the leaves fell down into the dark, and it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I was so grateful for colors and for light.