It’s 57 but the winds are gusting to 22 mph. It even smells like a cold day out and in the brief time it took me to walk from my building to the Circle K to procure hot tea, I managed to revive myself by seeing the beauty in the world. I am still mad about certain job related garbage but I know that the only way to make this day better is to change my attitude. So I’ve been reading my favorite sites, trying to organize my desk a bit, and now, I am formulating a plot. I will try writing some fiction and see how far I get. I have only written poetry lately so perhaps the break I have taken from the fictional world will grant me the good fortune of producing something today.

On another happy point, climbing was really fun last night. We play this simple little game called “add-ons”, which is basically this: one person starts and adds one hold to the route we’ll create. This person must show control on said hold before setting it. Each person follows and adds one more move. This is a great workout since you climb this route so many times until someone (probably with more skill) kills the route with a hard move or you eventually tire out. We played about 3 rounds of this and it was more interesting than climbing the same routes over and over. It even made me feel no so guilty for that slice of pizza afterwards!

I’m going to go now and think thoughts of places I’d rather be and maybe, just maybe, I can get through this day.