That picture sums up my September.
The past month whizzed by.
We had gay pride parades in Dallas and Fort Worth, long pool days, and trips to Six Flags Over Texas. I will cover everything in posts this month because I’ve promised myself to stop having a Truman Capote dilemma and finally start blogging again.
One important thing that happened in the past few days is that the temperature finally broke in Dallas – it’s no longer 100 degrees every day!
Back in Minnesota, winter would stretch so long that I would subconsciously forget that spring and summer existed. I just resigned myself to living in a dark, bitterly cold place and thought that’s how it would be forever. Then, every year, I was shocked-to-shit when spring came.
It’s like that in Texas, but with summer. I am so used to 100+ degree days that anything cooler feels strange. You mean that I won’t be drenched in sweat every time that I go outside? This is crazy!
A major change for October is that I no longer have to get up at 4:30 a.m. every day to write the morning roundups for the paper. That means that I have something resembling like a “normal” work schedule and that I no longer have any excuse not to get enough sleep.
October looks like it will be far less sweaty and sleep-deprived than September, which is excellent.
Oh, and this is a thing that exists:
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