Paradigm of Ambivalence

Today was the first day that the sun was actually above the horizon (plus the bigass hill to the East) when I got on the train. The skies were blue, the dawn light was making dazzles on anything that would shine, and it felt like summer would come back some day. And it's been a week or more since, if I leave promptly, I can be out of the office before sunset. Ah, sunlight! I am not a cave dwelling troll squashed under a slimy rock after all.

On the other hand, this puts us slap in the middle of the season where the sun is exactly the right degree of southerly that for an hour or so each morning it shines down directly through the clerestory windows in the office, and casts a blinding beam of light right at me, my desk, and my monitor whenever there isn't cloud cover. I hate getting crabby about the blessed sun, but at this rate, I'm going to need a sun hat and a parasol to be able to get anything done.

The sky is amazingly blue, though.