Sit Spot Journal - Day 2

Early evening. A warm breeze. Air conditioners buzz and hum. More are running today than yesterday. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter. It might be downright deafening outside tomorrow evening.

I'm dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, ready to hit the gym when M gets home. It has been more than a month since I been there, opting instead to stay fit by exercising in more natural and less stationary settings.

Actually, the equipment isn't what has kept me away. It's the aggressive employees who always approach and try to convince me to sign up for personal training sessions.

I sometimes think it would be funny if they worked as park rangers. I can just imagine hiking along a random trail when one of these gym transplants steps out from behind a tree and says, "How do you do? Nice day isn't it? If you sign up and pay for just four guided nature walks, you'll get a fifth one free. As an added incentive, if you pay cash, I'll throw in a free pair of binoculars."

My mental wanderings are interrupted by the ringing cell phone sitting next to me on the swing bench. It would probably be cheating to answer it, but it's the local bookstore calling to tell me the book I ordered last week is in. I always seem to miss their calls. I grimace and answer. Thirty seconds later I'm off the phone.

That's when I notice the silhouette of the arbor on the wall. I end up staring at it for the rest of my sitting time, watching it creep up the window sill and then the window. It had traveled several inches between the time I noticed it and when I took this photo.

Tomorrow, the phone stays inside. It's the wristwatch from now on.