Retrospective

Today's Word of the Day is "retrospective." I have been feeling retrospective, as I catch up with months of unread blog posts, old magazines, and movies I never saw (but my name finally came up in the hold queue at the library). It's an odd feeling, being so busy. Like living one's life, only three months late. I check out books from the library, but never get around to starting them until I'm on my third renewal. Find myself downloading pictures from the digital camera that are from the peak of midsummer. This morning, I hauled out from the spare bedroom the crate of winter clothes that I never got around to putting in the basement last spring, because now it's time to wear them again.

Sigh. I'm going to bed now, so I won't stay up too late (another recent habit -- as if I could fit the day I didn't have time to have into the hours after I ought to have gone to bed).