The weather in San Francisco is finally turning the cool and crispy autumnal that I absolutely love. Bring on the gloomy fog and early darkness! The morning chill that makes me wants to stay in bed forever. In fact I was going to write about this yesterday, but willpower lost to the warmth of my new mattress. Indeed, even those of us who like to “get after it” have days when we falter.
Autumn in San Francisco is definitely not productivity weather. This is cuddle up with a hot cup of drink kind of weather. The watch TV just for the heck of it kind of weather. There’s only three months left to this year! I deserve some respite for the work I put in the previous nine months (half joking). Which is why I am off to Austin, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada at the end of this month. I am finally going somewhere for vacation, instead of staying home.
Not that I would have minded being at home for an entire week. The abode feels positively cozy this time of the year. I get to watch the sky turn from dark to light in the mornings now, because the days are growing short. Heck, why I did I commit to flying off somewhere with my friends? That’s my introversion wondering out loud. Those brief pangs of regret that I had said yes to social events.
Like last Friday when I went to see To Kill a Mockingbird at the Golden Gate Theatre. I had a great time, of course. The play was fantastically written and superbly acted. It’s just that would have been equally as happy staying in on a Friday evening, reading a Gray Man novel. However, I understand that ultimately it’s better for me to hang out with friends. We are social animals, after all. it’s needed even for the most introverted of us. There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness!
It’s also lanterns season.