Oh September, what a bittersweet month. I’d be lying if I said that I’d miss the extreme heat of the desert during summer months, but something about the cooler, shorter days makes me a bit sad. Maybe because it means less beach days, or that school has started back up and I’ll be spending most of my days starting at a computer screen instead of frolicking outside. Regardless, there are a lot of things that I look forward to, and truly welcome this month:
- Being able to ride my bike around town without feeling like I’m going to pass out from heat exhaustion.
- The fact that I will be the only person at Starbucks not ordering a Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL, duh)
- Being tricked into thinking that Southern California actually experiences Fall because my town of Claremont is full of non-native trees. What a shock it is to be surrounded by evergreens the moment I leave the town boarders
- Trying to dress for Fall only to remember that it will probably remain in the high 80s, low 90s all month
- Raiders Football!! No, seriously
- Sitting at stop signs forever because the undergraduate students find the middle of the crosswalk intersection the perfect location to: talk of the phone; wave to their best friend; flirt with fellow 17 year-old freshman; take pictures of the beautiful colors on the non-native trees so that they can tell their friends/family back home that California DOES have an Autumn; seriously take 2 minutes longer than it should to cross a street
- Attempting to bake apple pies with marginal success (read: edible with no chance of gagging)
- Anxiously counting down the days until my favorite TV shows return
- Spending hours looking at awesome gifs here and here (yes, still not over these sites, never will be) while listening to the OC soundtracks (1,2,4 & 6) instead of working on my thesis.
- Seriously. Remember how great the music was from the OC? Here is the playlist. You’re welcome
