warm fuzzy
It’s the name of a drink involving hot milk and honey that I first drank when I was a kid at some coffee shop, too overwhelmed with all the espresso-based options to make a straightforward decision. In any case, though, if it’s made without too much honey, it’s pretty delicious. Another good beverage I reacquainted myself with today is an ‘Apfelschorle’. Also called ‘Apfelsaftschorle, it’s a mixture (usually around 50/50) of apple juice and soda water. It’s got the crispness and tang of a good pilsner, practically.
At the beginning of September I always assume the summer is over, but apparently we have a couple more days this year until Fall begins. I feel like I owe it to myself to jot down a little post-mortem here to try to enumerate some of the things I’ve done and how it went. It’s safe to say I was a little anxious about the summer, realizing that I’d both be single and living by myself. It occurred to me, I’d never actually lived alone for any significant period of time. Since college, during which I always had at least one roomate, I seemed to try to keep as many people around me as possible. Immediately after school, S and I traveled around Europe together, I lived with my parents during rest of the summer, and moved in with friends when I set off for Minneapolis. First with K, C and J, later I found a place with A and E, and then moved back in with K for a couple of years. Finally I moved out here with E two years ago.
Summer ended up being a lot more busy than I expected. There were some longer weekend bike rides to the San Juans, the RSVP to Vancouver BC, and in general, much more biking to work. My parents visited twice, on their way to and from their volunteer efforts at Cascade Springs in Utah. A.O. came out on business but got to spend 4 days hanging out in Seattle. I flew to NYC to see C and co, and even made it out to Montauk for some fun on the beach. There was time spent hanging out at bars and finding delicious new types of beer, meeting new people, going to several Mariners games, enjoying work-sponsored revelry, and backyard grilling. There was a rodeo and a ferris wheel, a fair amount of mountain biking, and some gorgeous hikes and backpacking trips. I can’t say I spent too much time playing guitar, but I dusted off my tripod a couple weeks ago, made it to the Seattle Art Museum with my parents, and got back into reading Guns Germs and Steel. I made a conscious effort to buy some new music and expand my repertoire a bit. There are some new feeds in my rss reader (publicola, yglesias, capitol hill blog) and a bunch of miscellaneous tasks that sat on the back burner for over 2 years (cycle computer installed, roller-blades found a new home, film developed)
All in all, I’m incredibly pleased with how well this summer has turned out. There are plenty of things on the list for the fall, too. Perhaps I’ll enumerate those sometime soon.