october rust

8/28/2025

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The "Mood" For This October
October now, and it's finally getting cold... switching from shorts to sweatpants. Life is slowing down... I watch through my window as cars drive by. The leaves on the trees here only fall off it gets cold enough for them to brown and die, which is usually in November or December, so celebrating Halloween feels a little discordant while the leaves are still green. I like celebrating by watching the old Addams Family movies and baking those Pillsbury sugar cookies with the cute Halloween designs in the middle. When I do this I feel some paroxysm of a childhood memory. Those feelings seem to fade with time. I wish I lived somewhere cold. So far this month, I've watched: Do other people experience fixed locations in their dreams? For me it's a Walmart and a strip mall next to it, or an amalgamation of all the houses I've lived in. I see these locations over and over again, usually with only small differences between dreams, so much so that I could map them out fairly easily. However, I feel like something bad would happen if I did, so they'll stay in my dreams. None of these locations exist in the real world, but I see them with clarity. It's like a set for a play that the theater re-uses because of budget cuts. I hope that the reader has a good and lucky October.