October is normally my favorite month,
all the fall leaves and crisp air.
Facebook memories indicate that there has often been a sickness within
the family. It doesn't last as long as
what I've seemed to experience this year.
It was bad enough before we set our clocks to standard. Setting the clocks back seemed to say to the
sun, "you have permission to take a long nap. Perhaps you can make an appearance every now
and then - just so we know you're up there."
The air has been so dry. It's horrible. I came to Oregon for moisture. The fog hasn't seemed to carry much moisture
to it this year nor has it rained often.
We're not currently hooked up to natural gas, and thus the only source
of heating we have had has been electrical and feels drier than the gas
somehow. At least my lungs and throat
believe they are. I haven't had a sinus
infection, but am getting tired of a dry throat each morning and the few hours
it takes me to unclog all of my breathing passages. I do well in the daylight, but when the sun
starts to set - shortly after 3:00 pm - which is so wrong! - It gets cold and
frosty and my body temperature has a hard time adjusting to the air around me.
I've been filling in for instructor
aides at various schools. The instructor
I have been with this week keeps her room so hot, it is unbearable - like
certain buses that I would ride in Salt Lake.
The air is nearly the same as what I left behind. I want to breathe again. I would like to have moist clean air again. (And I'm still ticked off about adjusting
clocks every six months - that doesn't help anyone as far as health and
productivity go)
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