snow in seattle (a possible metaphor)

it has been snowing in sammamish since last night, and i'm not impressed. although when you stand outside the flakes hit your face and it slowly starts to accumulate on the grass and the leaves of azaleas, the road is bare. all the human things repel it, it seems. for a moment it's lovely, but it never really sticks around. unlike pullman snow, this precipitation doesn't accumulate enough for us to be upset about it-- the same thought of dread for a moment came into my mind as it would in pullman, only to be saved by knowing that the snow wouldn't really stay.
the last few weeks in sammamish have been odd in my downtime. i knew in the back of my mind that something would come up for me in the job hunt, but it got hard waiting for something to happen. i would assume the worst, that same snow-thought of dread was pretty much constantly upon me. i began to believe that i would have to wait a long long time before i found any semblance of work. story after story i would hear about how people have been filling out upwards of forty applications before getting an interview, the snow in my mind beginning to pile up and up.
and while i did call my favorite uncle, the one who would always look out for me, i didn't really know if anything would work out. in fact i didn't tell my sister for a couple of days about calling him at all. there was a part of me that kinda felt like a quitter for calling-- then i realized this is how a lot of people get work, especially now that no one is hiring. becuase of that, i was able to find myself the job in south carolina for at least 6 weeks. i'm still working out the details but i booked my plane ticket and will get the apartment figured out next week.
i guess the snow didn't accumulate enough. i'm moving on.
so we'll see where this takes me. i hope that i'm good enough at tech writing to keep doing it and making a living for a little while, even in south carolina. that would be nice.
but if i do end up back in seattle, i know i can parallel park. i successfully did that yesterday.
things are looking up.