Over the past few weeks whenever I mentioned Xmas shopping ideas, Molly would warn me to respect October. I insisted I was since my actual Xmas shopping spreadsheet wasn't even going to be created until November 2nd--it's not like I was wrapping and sending gifts already. But, no, in spirit I had bah humbugged Halloween away. Of course, I was not the only one since all the shops near my office had begun filling their windows with lights, tinsel, (fake) greens, etc. Our collective punishment: 70 degrees Fahrenheit weather for the first week of November in New York City. This is neither right nor natural. Please forgive me, October. I will drink apple cider and eat candy apples as penance, I will wander though a maize maze blindfolded, but please give me back my sweater weather.
