fall

in between calling FEMA reservists and deploying them all over the country and shoving my face full of halls defense cough drops and blowing my nose in the hallway outside where transportation security administration works diligently away, I feel I need to reevaluate my life a bit. at age 24, I never thought I'd be working atop mt weather, battling the sickness that comes to a southern californian who hasn't experienced the changing seasons before. it's kind of glorious. despite the stuffed sinuses and the several people who ask me to repeat myself when giving them their deployment information (I wonder why...my voice is just so incredibly audible when I'm sick), I really am enjoying our deployment out here. eating lunch outside on a picnic table overlooking the rest of virginia isn't so bad. even if I do have to zip my jacket up to my ears and keep my hands wedged into my cargo pockets because it tends to get pretty chilly on the highest point in shenandoah valley. 

overall, though. I have to say this beautiful fall season is making me fall in love with small country towns.