two omens

[bearfinch]

It was eight years ago today that I was headed to London, Ontario for the first time ever, for my interview for my job here. It was a very bad time generally; the last full time job I had was a disaster that I had to quit, I was in debt and had to borrow money to buy the train ticket to get to London. I had been through series of ups and downs with

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[bearfinch]

Thanks. I lean towards thinking that most omens are just co-incidences. Take my story. Suppose I hadn't got the job here and ended up somewhere else. would I have taken those two things as meaning that I wasn't meant to work at UWO? Or just forgotten them? There's no clear answer, all we can do is live in the present and try to interpret life as it comes.

The owl was amazing and it's the only one I've seen that close. He must have lived in a little patch of woodland nearby because walking by there on other nights I heard the "whoo..." sound again coming from the trees.