1st day of fall

I know, it's not really the first day of fall quite yet, but it sure felt like it. The air has been getting chillier on and off over the past week, and it really hit all of a sudden today. Even though we really got cheated out of a proper summer this year, I am ready for fall. Despite being my first summer since finishing school, it's been one of the most challenging summers I've had, and I can't say that I'm sad to see it go.

Scott, Boris, and a bunch of the other geeky types have headed to Barcelona for the next ten days or so for DrupalCon and judging purely from Facebook status updates, have made it there safely. It would have been great to go, but regardless of whether or not I would have been up for it, I have already committed the rest of my vacation days earned to date to going to my cousin's wedding in LA at the end of October.

(Friday night hanging with Tall Scott on Denman.)

I took the day off of socializing today after staying up too late the past couple nights, and decided to catch up on a few things. First order of business was making my weekly trip to the gym. I would be thrilled if I could keep it up to twice a week, but it just hasn't been happening. Once a week and at least I can justify keeping my pass. Did my regular workout in my new leggings that I got for $12 in the sales bin at Roots (the sales bin at Roots rocks).

Decided to head over to Capers and get some groceries--luckily had dressed extra cozy, as it was pretty darned chilly out! It turned out that the Sustainability Fair, which I thought was only on yesterday, and I'd missed, was on again today! Lotsa food to sample, I tried some mint-green tea. The owner of Twice Shy had a booth there and was selling stuff from last year's line at mostly well over half off! Got a couple tops (I really must profile them on SpendLocally). Wandered around, then went in and got my groceries. Came back out and sat down to eat some lunch, and shortly DNA6 took the stage...I'd never heard of them, but it was a GREAT set! Had to get a tea to stay warm enough to make it through the show, but enjoyed it thoroughly. They seemed way too good to be playing the Capers Fair, but what the hey, I'm not gonna complain! Hoping to be able to catch a full length set sometime and get the full experience. It was just starting to spit again as they wrapped it up, so I snapped up their CD for $10, and headed home.

Haven't really been overly productive the rest of the day, but when it's drizzly and grey outside, I never really feel bad about it. I don't feel much like making my lunch for tomorrow, so I think I might finally try out one of the local eateries by the office. I've been there six months without buying lunch once!

Oh, and my seagull (I call him/her "my" seagull cause (s)he hangs out on my balcony frequently) barfed up mussel shells on my balcony today. I opened the door, and looked at the seagull, and it puked. It was disgusting.

(My hens and chicks finally bloomed!)

Work's been pretty crazy the last week or so, as our tech guy Chris left us to go do grad studies in Belgium, in fact he flew out today. His 'replacement' (I hate that word, cause you can't really replace someone, but I can't think of a better one) has been with us for two weeks now training and getting caught up on everything. I will miss having Chris around, he taught me sooo much, and is a really level-headed person to have around.

(Lunch on Chris' last day.)

Hoping for a less hectic week, getting back into the routine...getting my zen back. Zen-master Parveen must be slacking, cause I've been feeling really allovertheplace lately!