J'ai passé une bonne journée

It was sunny, it was Friday, and I ate good food. I do not ask much more from my days,especially here at school. The sun tends to go AWOL between mid-September and April here in Portland, but today it managed to keep in sight from one horizon to the other. Really, just a spectacular autumn day. I am told that fall on the west coast doesn't even begin to compare to the east coast, but honestly I am of the opinion that a lot of that has to do with very different cloud cover and precipitation pattern. When the sun is shining, and there's just the hint of a crisp breeze to keep you on your toes, and the leaves are glowing gold in the light, autumn is just as beautiful here as anywhere else in the world. I took a bike ride this afternoon with a couple friends, on a borrowed bike - my first ride since this summer.
I had spinach and feta tart for dinner, one of my finer cooking moments in my opinion. And the Boys and Girls Club brought a few groups of kids to the dorm for trick-or-treating, so a couple times our dinner was interrupted by small children in typical small-child Halloween get-up: pirates, devils, and, so my roommate tells me, the cutest kangaroo ever.