this weather makes me want to cry.

on friday i made the mistake of running 5.5 miles after not running consistently for about 3 months.
i am still regretting it, but i am excited that i can now do the fall river road run without a commute.
i saw a painted turtle on the way down the hill and it made me irrationally happy.
i think the term snout was coined with turtles in mind--their little pokey noses embody everything that the word suggests.

we watched fireworks from the breakwall which is always a treat because they go off literally over you head.
it's like watching them with 3-D glasses [minus the glasses]--they're not flat against the sky, you are essentially inside of them.
fortunately we did not get hit by any falling embers.

i might be going to greece [or some other very pleasant place] this winter for two weeks, all expenses paid.
someone we took sailing wants to employ nathanael and i to charter a boat in some far flung location.
they rationalized that if we went with a 57-foot beneteau it would be perfect because we would each get about 20 feet of boat.
i agreed emphatically.

i made mini soft pretzels on friday, they turned out great.
the only bad part is you have to eat them all within 2-3 days, so i have been subsisting on white flour all weekend.

the first 7-day workweek of the summer and already feeling sleep-deprived, but maybe this will be my year: my legs may just get tanned.

Whales of Superior
Loose low and resonant calls
Nosing frozen sky

i should really get out and ski more.
i just hate that cringing, miserable feeling of being so cold.

i came home wednesday night and stopped dead in my tracks on the way to the door.
the air was filled with a dense crackling.
like the rattling of dried beetle husks or empty nutshells, but with the weight and crashing density of boulders.
raw and violent, it was the heaving lake joining ice with ice.
with each rolling wave, the water fracturing and bursting into countless tiny fragments of itself.