It’s strange to see Facebook pictures of my friends wearing coats.
Fall hasn’t quite arrived in Dallas yet – everything is still green and the temperature is way too hot to wear anything but shorts.
However, it is not as if I’m really spending a significant amount of time enjoying the weather – I’m inside working for most of the weekdays, and my weekends are spent freelancing inside neighborhood cafes because it is too hot to sit outside.
Freelancing at OakLawn Coffee
A random I.T. problem knocked out my company’s web applications and email systems for most of the morning, but instead of enjoying the weather at the pool, I took some time to page through this blog.
Some observations:
- Minnesota falls were beautiful.
- I used to eat way too much Taco Bell
- Minnesota winters were truly awful.
- Miami was a terrible place to be outside for most of the year because of the raging mosquito problem.
I also disabused myself of this vague notion that things used to be more interesting when I was younger.
Sure, I may have been thinner, but I had my own set of shoe-gazing worries that are long forgotten.
Besides a growing waistline, what has changed is the level of agency that I exercise over my career and social circles. Sure, I traded blind optimism for the somewhat boring routine of actual work, but that’s better than the unpredictable alternative.
Today’s system outage allowed me to remind myself to stop romanticizing the past and focus on current issues, like how the hell can I get my email access back.
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