When it's 7 a.m. and it's still dark out, it feels like you've lost time. I feel more groggy (well, that might have been the late night) when I wake up before the dawn even though my rising is the same time as a week before.

 

Mondays are quite often a foggy day, mentally; it did cheer me up to see a guy walking downtown with a great big bunch of balloons, and to walk beside a woman carrying fresh cut tulips in a vase. So I'm thinking about going up to the market and buying some flowers.

 

Engineers are almost completely a mix of the dull and the hidebound. I like dressing a little more bohemian these days both because it's more myself and it confuses them. Anytime my shoes are shiny or an unusual color (or both) they act like it's a new invention. There used to be two of us wearing our fun shoes, but now A has moved to England. I'm the lone tastemaker in the office now :P