Home, home on the.... anywhere's fine, really.

So, no luck so far in the house hunt. We have been able to narrow it down a bit and found a couple of new places, but obviously we aren't jumping into anything yet.

I had an interesting assignment for class today, I had to write a query letter, which is essentially a pitch for a magazine or newspaper article. I really did not like doing it, but it occurs to me that this is the single most useful tool for a nonfiction, freelance writer to have, so I better learn it.

I don't have anything funny or interesting to say today, as usual, but I should mention that I almost died yesterday while snowboarding. I don't mean that I hurt myself badly or that I just fell really hard or anything like that, I mean I was almost literally killed. Everything was going fine until I found myself on an unusually long, flat trail that was apparently used most often for snowmobilers. Since it was about 60 degrees, the snow was the consistency of mashed potatoes, and the trail was even slower than usual. I don't know what it is about going incredibly slow on a snowboard, but for some reason I am about 10 times more likely to fall than when I'm cruising at breakneck speeds. Anyway, there is this snowmobiler behind me who decides to go the same speed like 5 feet behind me instead of passing. Well, naturally, I panicked because of his proximity and wiped out for no reason, conveniently splaying out directly in front of him. Luckily, he swerved just in time and missed my head by about 3 inches. I wouldn't even have been injured. My body would have been perfectly fine while my head was flat as a pancake. It was awesome.