a song that sounds like a text tone

My hair matches my favorite necklace. Today I got two cups of coffee for the price of the smaller one, and got to share it with a math-class friend. It's been raining since last Thursday. My feet are still wet from the walk to class at 8:30 this morning. I got a 90 on my math test, which was enough for my professor to write very good work in cramped, scratchy letters next to the score. My friends are all struggling, multilaterally, every single one. Today I thought too much about the way the world would be without me.

As I walked back across campus in the rain, I saw it pouring into the pond and churning the water to a boil. Across from that, the trees that mark the boundary were turning yellow and orange, and the smoke from the power site rose grey among them. Everything was silver. Everything gleamed.

to-do list for October

• be honest
• light candles
• fight
• come up swinging