my own worst enemy

Welcome, Autumn

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Summer's officially over. As Fall was approaching, I was a bit sad about the transition, but as of often happens in life, you come to the realization that whether or not you want something to happen, it's the natural order of things. So here we are, jumping off the blocks into a pretty awesome Autumn.

As if to wisk away my worries about the terminal nature of the high season, this weekend featured all the best parts of the harvest season. El Segundo held its annual Richmond Street fair, which reminded me more of hom back in Kentucky than anything out here has. All kinds of vendors selling clothes, trinkets, home remedies -- mostly stuff no one has any good reason to buy. Top it off with some games and good food and you have a hell of a little festival. I was definitely craving an Italian sausage (shut up, Booter) with onions and green peppers, a delicacy I always got for free from my sister and brother-in-law when they would work a booth at the various fairs in Kentuckiana. And funnel-cakes. Man, it's not a festival unless you have a funnel cake. Yum.

As if to say fairwell to the dog-days of Summer, Saturday afternoon we had ourselves a nice little barbeque in the park. Some excellent frisbee action followed by tossing around the pigskin (it is Fall, you know). The menu: bratwursts. Yum. Follow it all up with one hell of a football game (which was only a few plays from being one hellish football game) and you have a pretty sweet seasonal transition.

As for the past few weeks, life has been pretty good. I got to go back to Purdue to recruit for my company and I turned it into a five day vacation with Ginger. That's probably the longest I've gotten to see her in one trip since I moved to California. It was great just to get to hang out with her and all of my Purdue friends again. Add that to a DC-area trip (sorry we missed each other, Jism) two weeks prior and I've seen Ginger almost as much as my roommates the past month.

Summer - you've been great. But now it's Fall's turn. Bring it.

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