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10:24 pm would have been a luminous late twilight if it hadn't been so cloudy. Still, the sky had a smoky radiance, streaked in places with softer blue.
If I'd remembered this was the solstice, I would probably have gone to the beach with L., despite weariness and overcast. I forgot it all day; Google reminded me.
I harried myself out into the street and bought a chocolate-covered pretzel. It seemed right. I ate it while wandering up and down the village, which was populated but subdued -- I suppose everyone is downtown.
It's a warm night, though not as warm as we tend to feel entitled to. These last few days of burning overcast make the solstice a strange day, bright but not ecstatic. The pretzel was a little stale. A black-and-white puppy trundled away from its owner, who was doing something important to his convertible, and I caught the leash and brought the dog back.
This was my first day back at work. Changes are afoot. I am to have an office! I think technically it is also the server room and the place they store the TV set, but I am not complaining. An office! A door! A back people are not constantly walking behind! A proper desk! If only I'd had surgery *years* ago. I am promised an ergonomic chair, though I have to choose it from a catalogue, which adds an element of chance, an almost Vegas air, to the enterprise.
Rented "Kinsey" lately. I liked it very much; I was moved by both Kinsey and Mac. I identify with their combination of academia/bohemia/suburbia.
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If I'd remembered this was the solstice, I would probably have gone to the beach with L., despite weariness and overcast. I forgot it all day; Google reminded me.
I harried myself out into the street and bought a chocolate-covered pretzel. It seemed right. I ate it while wandering up and down the village, which was populated but subdued -- I suppose everyone is downtown.
It's a warm night, though not as warm as we tend to feel entitled to. These last few days of burning overcast make the solstice a strange day, bright but not ecstatic. The pretzel was a little stale. A black-and-white puppy trundled away from its owner, who was doing something important to his convertible, and I caught the leash and brought the dog back.
This was my first day back at work. Changes are afoot. I am to have an office! I think technically it is also the server room and the place they store the TV set, but I am not complaining. An office! A door! A back people are not constantly walking behind! A proper desk! If only I'd had surgery *years* ago. I am promised an ergonomic chair, though I have to choose it from a catalogue, which adds an element of chance, an almost Vegas air, to the enterprise.
Rented "Kinsey" lately. I liked it very much; I was moved by both Kinsey and Mac. I identify with their combination of academia/bohemia/suburbia.
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