intense flurries, no accumulation

for about 24 hours it snowed furiously... flakes whirling out of a leaden sky, stinging cheeks on a strong and bitter wind... it snowed and snowed, and yet a day later, when it slowed and stopped, there was hardly any snow in the streets... just the barest of white limning in the gutters... it was a weirdly dry snow anyway, and in the end one could imagine that somehow it had all blown away, or else evaporated without ever hitting the ground, like rain in the driest months in the desert.

friday they told me i was 'non-re-appointed' for the fall, i.e. fired.

the whole year feels like that snowstorm... flurry of furious activity, and... and nothing.