Obsessive Obsessions

Let's just say that running is not one of them lately. But that doesn't mean I'm not doing it. It just means running isn't consuming every waking thought and therefore, I'm not writing about it.

Thankfully, one obsession will either blissfully or mournfully fall away tomorrow night. Thank God. I'm not even in a swing state being bombarded with ads and calls and knocks at the door and I'm tired of this. I can only imagine how my Stateside cohorts must feel.

The other obsession--and I mean, all consuming thing I'm dreaming about every night and getting anxiety back knots over--is where we'll be next year and what we have to do to get there. It's possible we could Skype interview with some school and go straight there. Or we could spend a crap-ton of money and go to a hiring fair for the possibility of having a super cool opportunity, like a school in the middle of a ski resort in the Swiss Alps. It's a tough decision but we're currently slowly taking steps to get set up for a job fair, supposing we'll see what happens in between.

This is an all-consuming obsession because we have very specific requirements in order to be happy sane people. Plus, we need to stay at our next school for at least three years so we don't look like flakes. My requirements: less rain than what we've experienced here. That could equal Boone climate, so consider me not especially picky, but it does rule out maybe Scotland and Rio, Brazil though we will consider both. My other requirements: the ability to run on trails after school (meaning almost walking accessible so this can be done on an afternoonly basis), the ability to ski at least a couple times during the season (I haven't skied in almost two years and it's kinda eating me up). I also need the school to be in a better environment and by that I simply mean that I should not have to waste 20 minutes of class time hunting down technology equipment I've signed up for. My next classroom needs tech built in.
How hard is it to find all this together in one place?
Not especially difficult.
How hard is it to find this altogether in one place that needs us both?
A bit more tricky. Okay, quite a bit more tricky because no one ever leaves the type of school and place we're looking for.

So one can see why I'd rather obsess about this than about running. It's an exciting time, but whoa is it stressful too. Thankfully, I have running, which helps me deal with it all at least a bit more productively than what I'd be doing without.