Autumn in Miami
It's autumn in Miami.
How can you tell? Well, they've put out the cinnamon brooms in the grocery stores. This devious plot is designed to convice us sad-sack Floridians that we should be buying things like cider, pumpkins, and Campbell's soups. Because you see, in normal world - people are buying things like that. Why? Well, because it's actually getting a little bit colder.
They're pulling out sweaters, watching leaves turn and fall, and maybe actually drinking that cider. *Sighs* Cider when it's 80 degrees outside....promotes more of a upchuck than relax kind of reflex.
Autumn in Miami really means that yes it's a couple of degrees cooler and slightly less muggy than the inside of a steam room. And if we're lucky it's only raining 75% of the time. (Ask me how much I love indoor recess NOT). And of course Autumn in Miami also means hurricane season.
And tonight as I stopped by the grocery store I started wondering if maybe I should have checked the NOAA site before I left. It was so packed that I assumed we were once again in the "cone of death."
Nope.
Just Miami overcrowding encroaching on my used-to-be-not-crowded Publix. Typical.
But, at least I got to pretend that it really was autumn for a moment as I walked past the brooms. Speaking of which, its time for me to grade even more papers before I get back up on my own permanent one tomorrow. ;)
How can you tell? Well, they've put out the cinnamon brooms in the grocery stores. This devious plot is designed to convice us sad-sack Floridians that we should be buying things like cider, pumpkins, and Campbell's soups. Because you see, in normal world - people are buying things like that. Why? Well, because it's actually getting a little bit colder.
They're pulling out sweaters, watching leaves turn and fall, and maybe actually drinking that cider. *Sighs* Cider when it's 80 degrees outside....promotes more of a upchuck than relax kind of reflex.
Autumn in Miami really means that yes it's a couple of degrees cooler and slightly less muggy than the inside of a steam room. And if we're lucky it's only raining 75% of the time. (Ask me how much I love indoor recess NOT). And of course Autumn in Miami also means hurricane season.
And tonight as I stopped by the grocery store I started wondering if maybe I should have checked the NOAA site before I left. It was so packed that I assumed we were once again in the "cone of death."
Nope.
Just Miami overcrowding encroaching on my used-to-be-not-crowded Publix. Typical.
But, at least I got to pretend that it really was autumn for a moment as I walked past the brooms. Speaking of which, its time for me to grade even more papers before I get back up on my own permanent one tomorrow. ;)