Grey Skies, Dark Mood

(Toledo, OH) The weather in Northwest Ohio perfectly matches my melancholia this November afternoon, a day that witnessed yet another drubbing of the Michigan Wolverines by that team from Columbus.

Yet my less-than-cheerful countenance has its roots in matters weightier than football games, though I am hard-pressed to identify a single factor that is creating this gloomy attitude I am experiencing. This is the sort of day designed for turning on the iPod and staring morosely out the window at the cold rain collecting on the pavement, pools of liquid misery that ripple in the taciturn November breezes.