To be realistic

 StPM is probably a pipe dream.

Julien called the StPM office, and the colleague he spoke to told him there is one position open for sure. Maybe two.  One!

Who knows how many hundreds of applications they'll get. For possibly two posts.
Yet we continue to dream. Julien is off work for the next week, but he is at the office now, applying. 

Should know the answer in a few weeks to a month.

Here by Glimpses Known - Poppies

 A field of poppies is one of my favorite springtime sights in France.

 And far and wide, in a scarlet tide,
The poppy's bonfire spread. --Bayard Taylor