reports.

Found:
– Smooth, shiny red magnolia seed on the sidewalk, free from its burr and seeming quite jewel-like
– Feather. Grey at the bottom, white at the tip. That’s not very notable, but there is a grey triangle in the middle of the white tip.
– Cicada on sidewalk. Was not sure if it was alive or dead until I picked it up. It was alive so I put it at the base of an oak tree.
– Butterfly

Seen:
– Big black cat with yellow eyes watching me from atop a car in the parking deck
– Nest on the ground, falling apart. I had nothing in which to carry it and it looked like squirrel had rooted around in it anyway.
– At least 5 cicadas squished to smithereens on sidewalks. Number of these seen previous to return of students for Fall semester: 0.

Received:
– One red egg filled with the philosopher’s stone

Noted:
– The dead tree looming over my house from across the street has finally been cut down. Given the distribution of twigs and pieces of branches scattered by the removal, it is a damned good thing they cut it down before it fell.

Did not want:
– Cats yowling outside at 5:30am causing two of the cats in my bedroom to freak out and have a rolling-around, screaming-in-that-creepy-(and really loud)-cat-fighting way.
– My cell phone to have been automatically set one hour late for at least 3 hours Tuesday morning, including the time I normally wake up. The effect was that my cell phone alarm went off at 8:15 (so it displayed) but the rest of the clocks read 9:15.

Enjoyed:
– Writing a quick script to save a colleague a whole lot of time and tedious work.
– Last night’s class session on cataloging in context and FRBR.

Astounded:
– That it is September already.

Wishing for:
– Rain

Experienced:
– Monday night, depersonalization/derealization episode of unsettling strength and duration. Also file under “Did not want,” but here’s to knowledge and intact reality testing.
– Kensho-esque span of some amount of time upon ascending the stairs of the parking deck to open expanse of night sky Tuesday night.
– Intense head pain for an hour and a half last night.

These three things might not be unrelated.