california is on fire.

not like i'm on fire, that'd be near impossible for pretty much anybody. there are, however, raging forest fires to the east and south of here. what'd really be newsworthy is if there were forest fires to the west, i mean since that's where the ocean is and everything. so yesterday as i was walking towards my car before heading out in the morning, i noticed this layer of ash on everything which sort of made me wonder if there was a volcano that had erupted somewhere around here.

i'd never seen anything like it before, there were no forests in texas or in illinois, at least not any that got set on fire or anything like that, so the whole forest fire thing is a pretty new experience to me, which is funny because i don't even live in the forest. in any case, everything smells like smoke now, and it's extremely smoky, which i guess makes sense, and i guess dusty. some people won't go outside without masks, and it's hazy, even more hazy than it usually is, which is saying something because it's always hazy around here.

i probably wouldn't have even noticed all this if i hadn't just washed my car last week.

feeling: sore neck
thinking of: november and december
music: "carefree" the refreshments