A Job Done

I had decided that I would send my advisor the first draft of something I've been working on by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, and I'm happy to report I sent it just now. It's a kick in the pants to realize that school starts again in two months.

It's also a relief to remember that just because it was 97 degrees today (I know, WTF? It's normally about 85 this time of year), it's not actually August already. I know that everybody always talks about the weather all the time, but for the past couple weeks, it seems that every single person I meet has been doing so compulsively and with a sort of dazed yet intense desperation that is atypical. I walked to the dumpster and back around noon today (it took 11 minutes - I timed it) and several people looked at me from their air-conditioned cars as if my obvious insanity might lead me to do something even more reckless in the next few seconds.

This evening I needed to go to the grocery to buy eggs, got in the car, spent the whole time I was driving evaluating the quality of the light and clouds and their implications for the possibility of us getting rain soon, and realized I was about to pull into the school parking lot. Oops.