Seasonally Affected

It's fall. Or really it is fall right now because it's 8:30 PM. It's dark, there was just an amazing sunset, and now it's chilly and crisp instead of damp and cold. It was winter this morning, though (I woke up to a steady rain and 50-ish degrees), and I assume it will be winter again in a few hours as has been the pattern-- grossness until 5 PM when the sun comes out, blinds you for an hour and heats the air about 15 degrees just long enough to make you question your wool sock decision. I've stopped looking at the forecast.

I've only just realized why the weather has been affecting me so badly, especially this past year. It's embarrassingly obvious in retrospect-- the main perk of my job has been that I get to work outside. Clearly, however, this is only a benefit when it's not rainy damp and miserable. I'm pretty sure in a few weeks when I will be excited about what I'm doing with my days (/life), my mood will be less weather-dependent. And biking in the rain to somewhere warm and dry will be undoubtedly more pleasant than biking in the rain to a drafty, leaky, unheated houseboat office.

Right now, though, I am enjoying the fall. Even if it is coming in isolated chunks. Yesterday I picked up our first box of veggies from our CSA share with Helsing Junction Farm. The pickup was at a house in our neighborhood, so I stopped by on my way home from work and walked the 10 blocks home balancing the box on my handlebars. I felt very Seattle.

We even get a few fresh flowers every week as well.

Last night I made summer squash soup with cilantro, and tonight I used most of the rest of the cilantro in a tomatillo avocado gazpacho. My favorite part of getting a random box of produce is googling new recipes.

Yesterday was better than today because yesterday I started my day by waking up early and going to yoga. Today I woke up early and went to the dentist. Yesterday the workday went by quickly and I did lots of random little projects, like replacing mainsheet blocks and fixing door latches, while listening to the first chapters of Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought. Today I spent the entire day staring at the computer screen, spending way too much time changing around our e-newsletter template because I'm sick of the old one.

As you can see, there is not much to report. But I'm trying to be better about blogging.