Hey nonny nonny.

I would like to wish everyone out there a very happy Winter Solstice, and I hope that all of you are celebrating this most joyous day in a manner appropriate to the traditions of your culture. So light up a bonfire and dance around it until the cops come, take a moment to cheerfully taunt the stuffily religious, and definitely practice your fertility rites.

Enjoy the holiday before Hallmark gets ahold of it.

What I've noticed this year is that I'm fairly disconnected from the changing of the seasons. When I was a student/teacher, I was very driven by my college's schedule, which was of course very seasonal. This is late Spring so it's finals season, this is Winter so take a break for a month, that sort of thing.

Now, though, my work is very non-seasonal in the sense that the schedule of what I'm doing doesn't depend on the season. So I find myself a little disconcerted by that.

Maybe the bonfire will help.