Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Central Park East - 6:45am

Good morning!  Today I found a little summer and a little autumn for you.  I never want to wish time away, but I won't lie, I am a little happy that there's only one more day for me to plug in for August until it's finally September.  This morning was beautiful!  62oF and sunny.  Perfect temperature.  Doggies were loving it!

This is my favorite time of year - I love Autumn.  I love the transition into Autumn from God-Awful-East-Coast summer.  I always really liked school as a kid, so thinking about everybody getting new clothes, backpacks, class schedules, and heading back to school makes me really happy.  That time of life was so pleasant that the other day I found myself just a teeny tiny bit sad that I would never again be a kid getting my pencils and heading back to middle school.  The next time I do it, it will be vicariously through someone else.  Where did that time go??

Even though I miss those days, I still feel so fortunate to really love what I get to go off and do every day.  I enjoy the people I work with, I am intellectually satisfied with my job, and I have a boss that motivates me, encourages me, stays out of the way, and occasionally brings us pizza and/or espresso, and/or french pastries.  I also forget that at this time last year, I kind of was going "back to school."  I had my new bag, class schedule, itinerary for the year, new housing, etc...  That's as close as it will ever be!  The new crop of first-year's is here for orientation and start classes next week.  Tonight I'm accompanying them on the "Lower East Side Cupcake Crawl."  I'm excited to meet the new ones and to see what they're interested in, what senses of humor they have, and just make some new friends.    

Have a wonderful day!