I’m beat. Mary started her new job this week and I’ve been waking up when she gets up in the morning (after staying up late after coming home from my job). That, and the dogs were barking and running around last night at 4:30 am. That, and the kids I work with have been going bananas for the past couple of days and, really, work has been kind of depressing in general.

So, I sit at work and make polite and occasionally pointed conversation, but all the while I’m really preoccupied with an ad in Car and Driver Magazine that uses the beach at Point Conception, CA and an incredibly smooth shoulder high peeling wave as the backdrop.

I miss the coast.