rainy days

Now for the first time since July, I have internet access from my home computer in my office (my bedroom, but hey, I got a desk and a lamp and a plant and now, once again, internet access) So here I am, connected in NYC, uptown baby.

It's been raining all week. This is the most rain I remember seeingat one time. Funny thing, when it started, it seemed like an Indian Summer rain, but now the Autumn seems to have caught up to it and the chill is in the air. Winter is round the corner, no denying that. That's a comforting feeling, the fact that the seasons will continue to happen like it or not. A comforting feeling sort of like when you're running late for the school bus as a kid. When you're heffing down the sidewalk, backpack weighing you down, brown paper bagged lunch swining in the wind, hitting your thigh with each step, PB and J starting to seep out the bottom, the fear of death in your heart and tearas welling up in your eyes as the bus starts pullin away...Yeah, that's the comfort I'm talking about. It's easy to forget as a kid that the bus will be back in just one short day.