Happy Autumnal Equinox

[lydamorehouse]

Image: a tree on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, MN, putting on fall colors (yellow!)

Shawn and I took a short walk today along Summit Avenue. We did it partly to celebrate autumnal equinox, partly to GTFO of the house, and also because I had found a book that gives a rough "walking tour" of the Avenue and its historic houses. The book is called the AIA Guide to St. Paul's Summit Avenue & Hill District and I picked it up at the grocery store, because Kowalski's is on Summit Avenue and fancy like that.

Weirdly, it was kind of hot today, reaching a temperature of 81 F/ 27 C. So we didn't go very far, but we did see some fancy houses and we stopped and read about them, which was kind of a nice diversion.

The only other news in my life is that the class I thought was cancelled is on. I don't know where Kurtis found me three more students, but he did, and that was apparently enough to push me over the threshold into "viable." A contract arrived by 2:00 pm yesterday and the class starts at 12:01 am tomorrow. As you know, I've been working on it for over a month, but I had kind of quit after I thought I was going to be cancelled last week... and so yesterday was a lot of last minute welcome video recording, proofreading, and making sure I had all my ducks in a row--at least for the first week.

I still have gaps? But it shouldn't actually be too difficult to fill them. Besides, this way I have some flexibility about what will be taught next and students can actually give me feedback and suggestions... at least I hope they will.

Otherwise, I had a lovely wrap-up chat about FutureConSF with jiawen on Monday morning. There are still a few panels that I'd like to retrospectively watch, but the nice thing is that I believe FutureConSF is planning to keep them up indefinitely, so they will be there when I am ready for them. They might become what I watch while I'm doing dishes in the afternoon. As mentioned, I don't hate watching Zoom or YouTube so it's kind of relaxing for me and weirdly does work to make me feel connected to a larger SF community.

My friend in Canada turned me on to some art seminars, so I may check those out as well... at least as soon as I feel more done with the written materials for class.

Here is another lovely tree for you all to enjoy.


Image: Another lovely tree, this one with more oranges and reds coming through