Today as I drove to Ann Arbor to meet a group of students studying for an upcoming midterm I saw four Canadian geese fly across the freeway. This put an instant smile on my face. I used to have this silly supersticion when I saw geese flying, if I saw six geese then everyone in my family was fine. Today there are just four of us, but we’re still tight, still together even after all we have been through. Seeing four geese flying was a good thing.

As I sat on the bus I noticed a squirrel in a crab apple tree, going out to the ends of the branches and hanging upside down, grabbing last years freeze dried crab apples for lunch. The bouncing squirrel made me smile. Bonnie hated squirrels and she’d be barking if she saw. Maybe she’s barking now.

Almost into campus the bus passed a billboard. I thought it said “Unlimited tagging” and I thought that was odd (you’d have to be an SI student to get this). But really what it said was “Unlimted TANNING.”  As I realized how consumed I am with school I laughed.

It’s good to laugh.