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Torn from a map.
I could talk about the unfortunate things that happened today. I could go into detail about my landlady being passive-aggressive over the kitchen floor, which will never attract bugs because the dirt that gets onto it from people walking through the house is not and will never be food, or how the shower at home now only has one knob to control all the water instead of one for hot and another for cold. I could, but I'd rather not.
To begin with, both Pittsburgh and Denver International Airports have free wireless, and squatting sparrows - little urban birds that somehow got inside the terminals and either can't figure how to get out of there or realized it's much nicer inside. It's a little sad they're not outside, and pretty wonderful to see how nature keeps springing up in the most unexpected places. And it's a genuinely funny thing, the way the birds and the airplanes provide such a silly contrast to each other. I managed to doze on the plane rides, which helps mitigate the tiredness just enough. That, and being able to travel across the country in under sixteen hours is a pretty amazing thing, and now I'm safe at home, ready to get to bed as soon as it gets late enough to establish a reasonable sleep schedule.
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, and also the farmers' market, and the town's having a weekend-long ceramics festival throughout downtown. I found out the company that makes huckleberry soda - up there with blueberry - is up and running again, and have two more bottles of the stuff stashed in the fridge waiting for me. There was a barn owl flying around the backyard a little while ago, with just enough light left to see the shape of its face. And I've got just over two weeks in California, with perfect clear weather that's not too hot or too cool - there was a four-for-four today with the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range, the Sutter Buttes, and Mount Diablo - and I'm going to focus on making the best of what I can, with what I have, where I am right now.
Just imagining where I am in the universe.
To begin with, both Pittsburgh and Denver International Airports have free wireless, and squatting sparrows - little urban birds that somehow got inside the terminals and either can't figure how to get out of there or realized it's much nicer inside. It's a little sad they're not outside, and pretty wonderful to see how nature keeps springing up in the most unexpected places. And it's a genuinely funny thing, the way the birds and the airplanes provide such a silly contrast to each other. I managed to doze on the plane rides, which helps mitigate the tiredness just enough. That, and being able to travel across the country in under sixteen hours is a pretty amazing thing, and now I'm safe at home, ready to get to bed as soon as it gets late enough to establish a reasonable sleep schedule.
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, and also the farmers' market, and the town's having a weekend-long ceramics festival throughout downtown. I found out the company that makes huckleberry soda - up there with blueberry - is up and running again, and have two more bottles of the stuff stashed in the fridge waiting for me. There was a barn owl flying around the backyard a little while ago, with just enough light left to see the shape of its face. And I've got just over two weeks in California, with perfect clear weather that's not too hot or too cool - there was a four-for-four today with the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Range, the Sutter Buttes, and Mount Diablo - and I'm going to focus on making the best of what I can, with what I have, where I am right now.
Just imagining where I am in the universe.