found a very good parking spot this morning. it's thursday, so i start earlier than usual and i manage to get a spot in the main lot anyway, which is usually neat enough, but today i managed to plant myself right by the entrance.
i was behind a jeep, who was waiting for a mazda2 to back out, presumably so he could take its spot. unfortunately (FOR HIM, NOT FOR ME) he found out he was just a bit too far forward...the mazda wouldn't be able to get out, and even if it did he would have to back up so he could maneuver to get the spot. with my bonnet right on his bumper, it was an impossible task. defeated, he advanced forward.
the mazda left, and i snagged the spot. victory. i turned off my lights, careful not to repeat an earlier instance where i left them on all day and returned to a dead battery and a nonfunctioning alternator, and set up my blinds.
yes, dashboard shades. october is winding down and just as the year was getting pleasantly chilly we were hit by a monster heat wave, thrusting us into heat the likes of which haven't been seen since the middle of july.
i am terribly irked. some parts of the country are snowed already, and here we are with triple digit temperatures inland and the normally cooler coasts faring not much better. halloween is in just under a week, it just doesn't seem right. if i were a NEET and was ignorant of the passage of months i would have guessed we were still in august.
the urban heat island effect doesn't seem to be helping a bit, either...as i walk, baking, through the primarily asphalt and cement portions of the campus i keep thinking to myself how much better it would be heatwise, if it were still an undeveloped grassy plain by the beach.
it's unnatural. thankfully, today doesn't seem to be as hot as the three days prior and i'm hoping this is a mere short anomaly before we plunge into the true late fall and "winter" temperatures i'm used to.
(winter in california.....yeah.)
i've been hearing that this winter will be colder and wetter than average. i'm going to be careful not to get my hopes up, like i did last winter when we were promised a monster el nino event that would bring torrential downpours and flash flooding to our area and...it didn't. rained a bit, yes. some dry ponds reappeared, but the drought continued as usual.
if one could even call it a drought. it looks like it's just a normal part of our climate, now. the new normal here to stay.
boy do i hope i'm hearing the truth.
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