Fall feelings
Can it please actually be fall? I’m not meaning *technically* by the calendar (which is tomorrow). I mean in how it feels outside. I want to leaves to start falling from the trees. I want it to get cooler outside. I want to be able to wear boots and jackets again.
I’m skitzo when it comes to which season I like the most. Come end of summer, I’m always antsy for fall. Come end of winter, I’m always antsy for spring. I used to not mind winter so much, back when I lived in Georgia and “cold” was ho
vering around 40 degrees, but a few D.C. winters have changed my perceptions. Yea, I should be used to snow and cold since I grew up in Chicago, but I don’t remember people being so crazy about it back then. I was also only 12, so what did I know?
Know what else I love about fall? Pumpkins. I really want to carve a pumpkin this year. I haven’t done one since my senior year in college when I made someone carve a Yankees insignia into a pumpkin for a horticulture class assignment (don’t hate, it was pretty ballin’). I live in an apartment now sans balcony so I wouldn’t really have a place to display it, but I’m sure I will figure something out.
What I don’t like about fall and winter is how it gets so dark so early. For someone who works til 9 at night, I don’t like it to get dark at 5. I like how in the summer, I can get out of work and there is still some semblance of twilight going on.
That is just a random post about fall. Here’s to hoping I can find some bonfire to go to or a corn maze to roam through. Keeping my fingers crossed.
