Tomorrow’s August. Yeah, I know, big revelation right? But it does show how much of the summer is already behind us. Although it’s been only about a little over a month since the summer solstice, the days have already started becoming noticeably shorter. (Technically summer began on June 21st, which is the date of the summer solstice, but since I’m in Berkeley, summer began for me when the school semester finished in late May. And c’mon, the summer solstice is also known as Midsummer, which any reasonable person would figure to mean that it marks the middle of the summer, except that it doesn’t.)
But that’s just how things are. The days will continue getting shorter and shorter, until they start getting longer and longer, and then the cycle repeats. To think that it’s already been a year since summer ended last year, and that it’ll be another year until the next summer begins. Shocking, huh.
In other news, my forearms and scapula are apparently too tight, so my chiropractor gave me this one exercise where I straighten my arms downward at a 45 degree angle and pretend I’m pushing against two walls. As of now, doing the exercise makes my forearms feel all tingly and my fingers numb.