you know, after writing my little homage to fall beers, I had another thought about fall:

This is the last Fall in which I will be beginning the school year as a full-time student. After 22 consecutive first days of school early in September, I will be done. DONE. I will miss the autumnal sense of newness, of dread, of preparation, and of academic excitement. But I will not miss the grind. Falls will be different from now on. Everything will be different.