Okay, I know I was complaining about the cold and dreary weather, but this is ridiculous. It’s high 80s, every day, and humid besides. I went on a short walk yesterday and even in a thin dress and not much else, I was really warm. …

I didn’t write on Wednesday because I hiked for six miles on accident while visiting the UW-Madison Arboretum. It’s a really nice spot—the Longenecker Horticultural Gardens feature four whole acres of beautiful, cultivated trees and shrubs of all kinds, and outside of the gardens there are thousands of acres of…

It is a rainy, miserable day today, just like the weather said it would be. …

At the start of last week I tried to get back on track with the daily writing, and then proceeded not to write again for the next week. I have reasonable explanations for this but it’s still my bad. On Tuesday I went on a great hike in Pheasant Branch…

A coffee shop, again, because it’s really cold and windy and I don’t feel like trying to be outside. I have a good few things to do inside, too—some reading logs for Lord of the Flies, and a paper about Broken Earth that I’m working on. And, with some spare…

I missed writing yesterday. My bad. I had lunch with a friend and then worked for the few hours I had left, and doing this wasn’t the best use of time. It isn’t today, either. I’ve got plenty to do. So I’ll keep this short. I finished Broken Earth. I…

I’m back, for the seventh day of freedom from high school, and I get to do some more city driving today! What fun. I’m meeting a friend for lunch—picking her up from West High School as they let out. That’s at noon. I leave Clark Street at ten. I could…

The weather is, again, rainy. I know it’s only the sixth day, but it feels like it’s been constant. Ugh. Despite the fact that I’ve seen little actual rain out the window so far, the clouds are dark grey and looming, and I figure if I go outside, it’ll start…

It’s the fifth day of my freedom from high school and it’s SNOWING. Or it was this morning, anyway, and it’s still cold and blustery and maybe-precipitating for the rest of the day. So no hikes, again, tragically. We had a great class this morning in Humankind: Hopeful or Hopeless…