Autumn leaves are floating straight up in the gap between our house and our neighbor's. Storm soon?

Domestic snapshot: Sitting and sipping warm eggnog and editing Vicesteed while the cats sit in chairs nearby, festival squash bakes in the oven, and the roomba sweeps the floors. Outside, the contractors are locking down their ladders and heading out for the night.

• Free-to-download (creative commons) Halloween music mix: ping.fm/xdUTI
• It seems appropriate that I'm looking up the timing for rigor mortis on Halloween
• Stocked with Halloween candy, including evil durian candy for no-costume teens demanding candy.

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• The rain has turned to sleety snow. I wonder if I'll have to go to the dayjob today?
• (I hate just calling my day job "work" because it implies what I do the rest of the day isn't. Not true.)
• ----There are squirrels under our 2nd story floorboards. They got there because of repairs unfinished.

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Edited to Note: No, I did not have to go into work. ( Read more... )

• District 9, Zombieland, and Surrogates are all at the cheap rate at Block E. Want movie-watching time!
• Those wacky Swiss researchers! ping.fm/wlUGb
• A squirrel just TP'd our tree with a wad of white plastic? fake cobwebs? longer than he was. Happy almost-Halloween!

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• Glad they finished the roof before--first snow?

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• Some days really are mac 'n cheese from a box and green beans from a can days--and that's okay!
• --The pack of feral neighborhood children is beating bees to death with sticks. In our yard/on the outside of their house. Sting, bees!
• + Drinking the first hot chocolate of Fall, creating a photo order record for Tuesday's photo gig.
• I drink hot tea ( Read more... )

I love this weather! It's cool enough to open windows, wear jeans, and let my hair down, but cool enough to still go barefoot. It's time to start thinking about cozy long-sleeved shirts and baking and crock-pot cooking and having candles lit and acquiring boots. Hrm. Well, I don't like shopping, but the rest of it's good!

• Equinox! The turning of the seasons. It is now officially my favorite time of year!

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• 12:50 Walked through fog to get to work, am now practically the only person here. Eerie.
• 13:16 It's been so slow at work they even cleaned the fridge and microwave.
• 15:04 Movie: ping.fm/nHR8Q
• 17:08 On bus ride home, saw beat-up van with "We Need A Job" written in large letters on the windows.

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