Currently I have three weeks of work left, and then I am unemployed. It may be that I will be extended, or I may not be. I’m pretty sure that no one knows what they’re doing.

But I was here yesterday when a possum came to the front door. We had a large winter storm the day before- supposedly the biggest in a decade. (but nothing compared to the ones I remember as a kid). We received a pile of snow and some blizzardy winds and the whole city sort of shut down. The schools were closed but I still had to go into work.

It was a quiet day, most of our clients didn’t show up and by afternoon the place was empty. And that’s when I noticed the possum. He was standing in front of the two big glass doors- it looked like he was wondering how to come in. He wasn’t that big- a juvenile I’d say- and it may have even been a she.

I gathered all three of the staff that had made it in that day and we slowly moved closer to the glass door- maybe...