The Inevitable Crash

Seattle Winter 2006
Originally uploaded by liquidnight

And so, having finished my thesis, I collapsed into bed early last night and slept for 11 hours. I have not slept 11 hours in a long, long, time. I finally got up late around 10, got dressed, and sauntered over to my favorite cafe, where I proceeded to drink a cup of coffee and nearly fall asleep again on one of their enormous, comfy couches.

Which is where I ran across this photo on Flickr. I love this photo. It makes me miss Seattle. For those of you who have not experienced a Seattle Christmas, I'm sorry to inform you, but your life has actually not been happening all these years. You've been in a sad, sad state of non-living and only after you experience the month of December in downtown Seattle can you start to live.

Winter in Seattle is amazing. We don't get a lot of snow, but we get lots of rain to make up for it, and strangely the rain sort of adds the same mood to a Christmas evening for a Seattlelite that snow would for most other people. We're kind of odd that way.

With Thanksgiving barely a few weeks away, soon it will be time to start playing Christmas music! Can't wait.