{"id":188,"date":"2007-08-28T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/08\/28\/overwhelming-ennui\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T03:06:00","slug":"overwhelming-ennui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/overwhelming-ennui\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Ennui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a vague idea of why, but really, the important thing here is that I am completely overwhelmed by melancholy right now. Yeah, AO is traveling, and that&#8217;s always a bummer, but it&#8217;s more than that.<\/p>\n<p>I know on last year&#8217;s podcast of this time-ish i mentioned feeling this way and here I go again.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, I think I sussed it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the light.<\/p>\n<p>I remember distinctly how, upon moving to NYC, I could see the seasons in the quality of the light. Something about the angle of it&#8230;the way it filtered in the windows differently&#8230;you can <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">see<\/span> Fall coming.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s still August and even in NY there&#8217;s a good chance that nice weather is at least a week or two off&#8230;but&#8230;the light is changing here. I can <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">see<\/span> it. It&#8217;s distinctly different in the morning and evenings. Beautiful. It&#8217;s the approach of Fall.<br \/>But&#8230;<br \/>It&#8217;s 100 \u00b0 out.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now it&#8217;s evening and it&#8217;s not&#8230;well&#8230;hell, maybe it is. I know it won&#8217;t be for long. But it&#8217;ll only get down to 78 \u00b0 or so tonight and my Web Weather Monitor tells me tomorrow will be 102 \u00b0.<\/p>\n<p>This is not Fall.<\/p>\n<p>I never really did the &#8220;season&#8221; thing before, having grown up here in the Southwest, but eleven years in NY&#8230; it&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s very very hard to lose that.  I suppose it&#8217;s something primal&#8230; something&#8230; internal. I don&#8217;t know. All I know is I&#8217;m sad. And it should be cooling off. And I miss my seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In October sometime, the nights will start to cool off, and we&#8217;ll have some days that are in the low 90s and it&#8217;ll be dry again. That will be nice. Then, by November, we&#8217;ll be sitting in sweaters around the fire pit at night.<\/p>\n<p>But that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">should<\/span> start in a little over a month&#8230;not a little over two. And I should have Jackie and John and Liisa and Professor Eval with me (a little Eval must enter every life).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something in my body that&#8217;s telling me one thing while my environment is telling me another.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many years it will take to erase this?<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ll just be&#8230;like this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a vague idea of why, but really, the important thing here is that I am completely overwhelmed by melancholy right now. Yeah, AO is traveling, and that&#8217;s always a bummer, but it&#8217;s more than that. I know on last year&#8217;s podcast of this time-ish i mentioned feeling this way and here I go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}