Life goes on, most assuredly. The fall is stinking beautiful up here, and we've been blessed with the best weather - crisp and cool and breezy and sunny and I just try to take it all in, because as I get older, the seasons really do start to fly by, and there's not one thing I seem to be able to grab a hold of to take with me. All I can do is appreciate the moments spent in awe of nature as they come.
But now for some more silliness, because I am also in need of a mind dump:
Lots of time spent on the health effects of marijuana this week, and a lot of respect felt for my colleagues who devote their time to wading through such topics with our students. When I actually get to think about the science and read journal articles from *gasp* 2013, I get into it. When I spend my time delicately answering question after question about how much students can smoke without having a "problem," I tend to lose a little of my umph. Perhaps within the intersection of the two types of my work lies the issue - perhaps we've got a minority of kids running around, axons in the hippocampal regions of their cerebral cortexes all diffused, forgetting how much marijuana they can smoke without it becoming a problem. It's a real joy those limited times I spend working with kids in-person, and I meet young people more focused on their lives and living them well than on the minutia of risk aversion-themed rebuttals I hear, and mostly from adults who assume their kids are less healthy than the reality states.
In other recent times and/or seasonal news, I need to figure out a Halloween costume. This is always an agonizing decision for me, and even more last minute than it is agonizing. That may be because part of me remembers that I am an adult, but it's mostly likely more so the case that I get too excited to figure it out.
Marijuana and Halloween. For now, mind dump complete.
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