Whirlings.

A butterfly landed on my shoulder today.
To take a break from the furious flutter of Academy life.

I hope it's a sign of good things to come.

Celebration is in order!

Carne asada fries...in San Francisco?!

Los Olivo's on Larkin between Post and Sutter, the rumors say.
Soon I will confirm or invalidate...

"Table-pounding."

"No, we should go forward, groping our way through the darkness, stumbling perhaps at times, and try to do what good lay in our power." - Camus




Is this how it goes?

Obviousities.

I need more material.
There is too much material.
I need more positivity in my life.
Aimed at a focal point.
I need less clutter around me.
Time to go outside!

Probably not that hilarious in hindsight.

SAD 2

After self-diagnosing myself with a possible case of seasonal affective disorder, it's strangely serendipitous that I would pick up The Plague.

The townspeople in quarantine, joltingly separated from their loved ones by risk of contagion, calibrate their emotions according to the whims of the weather. Camus astutely observes that these townspeople, having formerly placed their loved ones at the foreground of their small, personal landscapes, now lacking focus or drive for feelings of happiness or despair in any tangible sense (that is, in a lover, a friend, or a family member), have come to rely on the weather as substitute source of emotion. Without one particularly potent, meaningful personal relationship to dictate the mercury levels on their emotional thermometers, the sun now represents happiness, cloudy days, despair. Where there was once imperviousness to the seasons, in its place is an unconscious vulnerability to sunshine and raindrops.

SAD

Seasonal affective disorder (also called SAD) is a type of depression that is triggered by the seasons. The most common type of SAD is called winter-onset depression. Symptoms usually begin in late fall or early winter and go away by summer. A much less common type of SAD, known as summer-onset depression, usually begins in the late spring or early summer and goes away by winter. SAD may be related to changes in the amount of daylight during different times of the year.


Though I do love rain.