Well, no snow, but kind of a pretty, cozy day with a soft white snowcloud sky and a bite in the air that feels very seasonal. I put on all the nice lights and lit my candles and it's very soft and pleasant - a backdrop at odds with my totally nuts, frustrating workday! 

Well, at least I managed to have a good chat with my crows, and also I saw the old man I always used to talk to in the graveyard. I hadn't seen him in a couple months which was unusual for us, as we used to pass each other and chat pretty much daily. He said that he was wondering where I was and thought I might have stopped running every day because I'd gotten pregnant - according to him, I was the right age to do so. I didn't take offense at that though; it just seemed like an old man thing to wonder. I didn't tell him that for my part, I'd wondered if he'd died and felt sad about it. All that said, I don't know how he's missed seeing me because I'm there every day, same as I've always been. The crows sure know when I dang show up.

Ordered in tonight, but I've liked fucking around with my New York Times cooking subscription. I recently experimented with a really good seared scallop recipe with pan-roasted tomatoes and cream - I'd never normally think about doing a sauce with scallops, but it was absurdly good, kind of closer to Tikka masala sauce than to a pasta. I've been really into cooking savory, spicy things this winter and have been experimenting some with Korean cooking - bibimbap, kimchi fried rice, and on the menu later this week, this spicy dark red kimchi soup with noodles. 

Speaking of work (well, I was a couple paragraphs ago) I'm wondering how well it's working out with this new friendship I have with my boss. My only actual work friend is off on some kind of mental health disability leave, and now my boss, I think sensing our mutual loneliness about aforementioned work friend's abrupt departure, has been talking to me in a really personal way. Like telling me really negative stuff about her other interactions at work and blowing off steam. I want to have that kind of relationship with her, but I also find it a little jarring and kind of like uncertain like walking on bad ice. But maybe I'm making too much out of nothing. 

Thought about camping the villa this weekend, but the weather looks stormy. I haven't had almost any camps or woods time this year, and it disappoints me more than I can say.