I was smoking in front of Nick's log cabin when I witnessed the first leaves floating down. I stared in quiet disbelief; it was 95 degrees a day ago. The temperatures have plummeted, the wind is back with vengeance, and I wore a flannel all day today.
But here is the clincher, the real reason that summer is on its deathbed gasping for air, Starbucks brought back the pumpkin spice latte.
And in the spirit of the season, I got my hair dyed pumpkin orange to match!
Okay, not actually intentionally, but I am growing quite fond of this hair color.
Nothing else really happened today. I wished Nick a hearty "Bon Voyage" when he set off to see Modest Mouse in Spokane. He then will attend a riotous and drunken birthday party in what used to be the #1 party college in America. Pullman's own WSU.
If we remember correctly the partying didn't go so hot last time. (Beluga whale sex and all) But I say, "Go ahead, I wish you would, Go Ahead!" Okay, maybe Rilo Kiley's lead singer Jenny Lewis says that.
It's funny how I think that I am somehow immune to the passage of time. Fall really caught me off guard. I have three weeks to apply for college. Again. CBC starts in two weeks. And Alec is leaving in about fifteen days.
That is a really stiff blow to my intestines.
Then Haley is moving to Spokane.
We are best friend-sisters and the separation will be awful.
At least she'll have internet again and I can read her blogs.
It just keeps hitting me. I'm turning purple and black from all these blows. So many things grinding to a halt. An endless number of days, weeks, months, years that I've wasted. I'm turning twenty next April.
Time really freaks me out.
1 comment:
Time is a very interesting thing.
And I would enjoy seeing your pumpkin hair soon.
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