WTF autumn?
Oct. 13th, 2021 08:59 pmHow is it almost half-way through October already? The leaves seem to be turning day-by-day. In the supermarket carpark today, whence I had gone for emergency nephew birthday cards, the leaves were looking splendid, already more colourful than at the weekend when I dashed down to see ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
antisoppist and sat on a bench overlooking a reservoir* and thinking that they were more colourful than a walk two days previous to that. And now it is family birthday season and then it will be Christmas, for which a combination of pandemic, Brexit, but possibly no longer the Ever Given debacle, means that we will apparently not have any presents or food. Work is bonkers, and I cannot possibly resent that a colleague is off sick and I have to pick up a large chunk of work against a deadline after all the time I've had myself, but it is not ideal. I've also worked out that tired eyes at the end of the week might have something to do with possibly needing computer glasses. I have always found the screen an awkward distance, not quite right for either with or without, but it seems to have become more acute and is really making me loathe to use the computer outside work, so nothing personal is getting done. But I have an optician's appointment on Friday.
Have this month's haiku from my calendar. The weather this week is actually rather nice, but sheets are not dry after 7 hours on the line.
Chilling autumn rains
curtain Mount Fuji, then make it
more beautiful to see.
*On which her son was canoeing, not at random. But it was very nice to have a change of scene and it was a not-unattractive reservoir, with the amusement of watching teambuilding failure and people falling off paddleboards.
antisoppist and sat on a bench overlooking a reservoir* and thinking that they were more colourful than a walk two days previous to that. And now it is family birthday season and then it will be Christmas, for which a combination of pandemic, Brexit, but possibly no longer the Ever Given debacle, means that we will apparently not have any presents or food. Work is bonkers, and I cannot possibly resent that a colleague is off sick and I have to pick up a large chunk of work against a deadline after all the time I've had myself, but it is not ideal. I've also worked out that tired eyes at the end of the week might have something to do with possibly needing computer glasses. I have always found the screen an awkward distance, not quite right for either with or without, but it seems to have become more acute and is really making me loathe to use the computer outside work, so nothing personal is getting done. But I have an optician's appointment on Friday.Have this month's haiku from my calendar. The weather this week is actually rather nice, but sheets are not dry after 7 hours on the line.
Chilling autumn rains
curtain Mount Fuji, then make it
more beautiful to see.
*On which her son was canoeing, not at random. But it was very nice to have a change of scene and it was a not-unattractive reservoir, with the amusement of watching teambuilding failure and people falling off paddleboards.
