Just up the road from us - this jacaranda always looks splendid at this time of year. I've come to associate jacaranda with the end of the school year, with graduation, with a feeling of, at last, being let off the leash. I doubt the summer is going to be quite like that this year: chairs' meetings will continue all through the summer; we learned today that we'll most likely be furloughed - varying lengths of time, according to our salaries - and that the university will probably stop putting matching funds into our pension accounts. Indeed, it's a privilege to be able to be startled by this - for we do, indeed, have jobs. But. Still. It brings it home ...
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