Bizarro Weather

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I think I can say with certainty that this is the first time I’ve ever made a post on the .org in January with my window open. At the very least it’s the first time I’ve done so when it’s so late at night. We hit about 65 in Toledo today, and even now we’re still at around 61. By point of comparison, the average low we reach in the middle of summer is 60. Normally we don’t open the house up until it gets closer to 70, but it being the dead of winter and all, our bodies are kind of inured to the cold, and so 60 kind of feels like 70 now. The temperatures will drop here — we’re only supposed to hit the mid 50s tomorrow, and then snow is in the forecast after that — but for now it’s kind of a trip to have my window open late on a January night. It was even freakier earlier in the day, when the sun was out and I could see all the bare trees in our backyard. I’m not complaining in the slightest here, but at the same time things didn’t exactly feel quite right today.

This gets me to thinking about going out and taking photographs sometime soon for the .org. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve done so, and I still haven’t done a photo shoot at Wildwood in several years now, hard as that is for me to believe. The thing is that I want to get a wider variety of exercise in this year — not just dance games with the odd day of yoga here and there, and walking in Wildwood is definitely something I’d like to do more. The problem is that whenever I take photos at Wildwood I don’t really feel like I’m exercising, because I’m walking slower and making frequent stops just to set up, and take, the best photos I can. This doesn’t even touch on how my shoes always get a lot of sand stuck to them when I walk at Wildwood, and how no matter how hard I try, the sand never seems to want to dislodge itself except inside my dance game pads. The obvious solution would be to get a pair of shoes exclusively for those long walks, but I’m not sure I’m ready to make that kind of investment right now.

We’re actually going to have thunderstorms, or at least thundershowers, in here in a little while, which is another one of those things that just jars you by how out-of-place it is in January. The chance of thunder extends into tomorrow, when unfortunately I won’t have too much time to enjoy the weather because I have to go to a workshop up at campus for the adjunct instructors. My online class starts this Friday, and a week from today my on-campus classes start back up. I’m feeling pretty nervous about trying to teach multiple classes in a semester for the first time, but I’m hoping that I can get adjusted to it in short order. This is work I love, after all, it’s only a matter of being able to juggle more of it.

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