Friday, October 17, 2003

Autumn Leaves

I'm having a warm and fuzzy type day. The weather, although chilly, is sunny. This makes for good leaf scuffling. Leaf scuffling is a required activity of mine in the fall. You cannot scuffle in leaves after it rains, because all you get is cold, wet shoes. The weather has been sufficiently dry for the past couple days, and windy too -- meaning new, dry leaves just perfect for scuffling. Working on a campus that is loaded with trees (seriously, one of the most beautiful campuses in the country), in another couples weeks, groundskeepers will be blowing the leaves into massive piles and then driving the huge leaf sucking vacuum around to pick them all up. True fact: Piles of leaves are depressing. The leaves don't like it -- they've told me so. I don't like it either. If you put them in piles, they get soggy, which in turn causes inferior scuffling. Leafy piles also get wormy, which is just eww. So, if the piles of leaves are dry? I free them from their leafy bondage by scuffling right through the middle of them. That's me. A leaf rebel.

Reading through Tracientx's blog and her excitement over finding a Schoolhouse Rock video, I couldn't help but start singing half the songs I know. Well, I know most of them. We have the complete Schoolhouse series on DVD. Last summer on the way to Hatteras, TinyTuna played them over and over again. I didn't mind. Who could ever tire of "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" Not me! Besides, ask me to recite the Preamble? Well, I couldn't. But I could probably sing it. Thanks, Schoolhouse Rock!

I love those things that have the power to transport you back to the good memories you carry from your childhood. Every semester I play Puff, the Magic Dragon for my college kids. It is the funniest thing you'll ever seen. They all simultaneously "awwwww" and start singing. That, my friends, is the power of music. Speaking of which, Gram, TinyTuna and I have PP&M tickets for this Sunday night. Sweeeeeet! The last time we saw them was a summer concert where we had lawn seats. Unfortunately, we were sitting near a bunch of drunken heathens, more interested in talking loudly to each other, or on their cellphones. A shut-up anvil was needed that evening.

I'm ready to go home now. Only two and a half hours to go. With no baseball games tonight, what do you suppose the chances are that NBC will air their regular lineup?
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