1st october
The weather is changing here.It's October first and as if on cue, the air seems drier, stretched thinner. The light is wavering between the heavy thickness of summer humidity but leaning towards the ether it becomes towards Christmas. It's the little changes we have to savor in Los Angeles. There's an autumn smell in the air, and the sun beats warm on my back. I wonder what it'd be like to live in a place that actually gets cold.Last year at this time I was packing, (at least mentally) ecstatic and rolling in golden waves of success, freshly graduated and looking forwards to the (one of many) trip of a lifetime! Packing

30 september
It's my birthday!It's the day that always made me hold my breath just a little bit, in expectation of what goodies lay in wait... A day for surprises, friends, family, birthday cake and everybody singing for you!It's the ultimate in ego-satisfying self-gratification, excusable and unashamed!September 30th- the day I made my mom a mother, the day I waited for all year, and it was always over so quick. It's a day of fall colors, of school beginning, it feels as much a part of my identity as my name...And it's today!It doesn't matter what I did, or what I'm doing... What matter is where I am and where I'm going... Does tha