msfledermaus | Somewhere not too far away there are puppets on the streets...

...I'm missing the May Day parade again this year. It's a good day to miss it; it's fairly cold and wet, though now this afternoon there's a bit of sunlight. This is always the time the sun comes out as if by magic for the big finale at the end of the parade. No matter how soaked and cold you are, you can always count on that patch of sun right before they play, "You are my sunshine."

I'm glad I didn't play hooky from work today, but I keep thinking: Next year I should go again. I used to go all the time. It's a shame it always rains on the parade...

So instead I'm being a good monkey in my monkey suit and knitting with this really very pretty peacock-colored yarn I made, just to see how it looks in a scarf or something. It makes me feel very proud of myself, making something so pretty. *Makes proud face.* I needed the boost; for some reason people off the street feel like they can be as smug and nasty as possible to us today, and I admit it was pretty demoralizing this morning. It was all I could do not to stick a post-it on my forehead saying, "Hi, I take shit for a living."
But I feel a lot better now...and I know there's a ton of huge puppets out in a park not far away, welcoming the sun back. That makes me happy enough, even though I'm not there...