Weather Blahs and the News Cycle-- More coffee, please.

 



Ahh, coffee.

Totally a necessity and truly a pleasure.

It's dreary, wet, chilly again this morning, the wildfires in Canada are still smouldering and the particulates are still drifting towards us (though further south is getting really toxic). In short, the only thing that is different in my little world at the moment is that it's Friday, and my seniors are done.

That leaves me a little stretch of time today to work on a few small projects in my classroom, and then we have awards at 1:00--thus, no juniors today. I think I'll get some cubbies cleared and put some books away that have been residing in slowly-falling-apart boxes. 

Or not. We'll see. I am not sure I want to get into a dusty project, given the state of asthma this week. I may do some "other" work-- I need to curate a list of five poems or so for my conference at the end of the month. I have a new poetry book to read, one that I've been asked to write a review for-- that could be really nice. 

What I do not want to do is sit and doom-scroll for two hours, and, given the news cycle and the indictment of TFG and his manufactured outrage, it would be far too easy to sift through news sources to piece together what is in that sealed document. 

Or follow the counter-offensive in Ukraine. 

Or the shipping of immigrants to California from Texas by Florida. (Wow, need a map/scorecard?)

The weather sort of suits my mood-- even the Red Sox are sucking mud. I'm looking at my micro-gardens and I'm wondering if I'll have to replant them; too much rain. We don't have any stretches of sunny/warmer weather in the forecast for a while, except maybe Sunday. I may choose to stay home and not attend graduation if that's the only day I can get outside and see what's going on in the gardens. 

It sort of feels like Mother Nature and I are both limping/slogging forward to summer, and someone keeps moving the finish line. We'll make it, but lately, it's been pretty slow going.

Bright side? I have coffee. =)

Have a good day, and stay dry and out of the smoke.

C

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