(First, TypePad rocks even more than usual; I didn’t lose my post! It totally looked like I did, it didn’t show up in recent entries or on the journal itself, but it did show up after I posted the second recap. So cool.)

Daylight Savings Time. It was dark by Oprah, and that’s just sick.

Here’s the thing, every year I do this. I get wistful for winter. By February, I’m all “Get me some fucking SUNSHINE already!” but this time of year? I start to sniff the air for snow.

Now that the leaves are gone, and especially with the early darkness, I am starting to think about my cocoa supply, and I’m wondering when my first snow day will be. There’s just something about that first snowfall that I can’t resist.

Today felt like snow. It was gray and cold, and woodsmoke was in the air.

I can’t wait to vote. I have been reading so much election stuff today, and I’m so irritated by the current administration that I am voting EAGERLY. I only wish we had cable to see The Daily Show coverage. I’ll have to settle for networks. I also researched what districts I’m now in (first time voting in this specific district; last presidential election I was on the East side, and last election we were out in the sticks) and figured out that I’m pretty much checking the D box for everyone. I’m a registered Independent, and in our neighborhood race, the Republican seemed to have good ideas but the Dem was a retired math teacher and had education first. (The Republican had health care as a priority, specifically Dirigo Health, which I support.)

Anyway, these cycles of change: time, weather, politics, etc, all make me hopeful. I may not be pregnant this month, but mayde Future Baby will be so liberal that existing in even the simplest form under the illiterate Republican fascist president is just too much to handle.