Fall

Fall.  One of my favorite times of year.  In most places, there's a cooling in the air, a feeling of change, rest, a flavor to the wind that starts people to thinking about winter and the wonderful comfort of warmth.  Frost is found in the early mornings, football is on TV and long-sleeved shirts are pulled out of wherever they'd been hibernating for the last months.  But not here.  Here, in Hawaii, there is no weather.  And so, instead of enjoying fall for myself, I'm forced to remember seasons past and fantasize about living somewhere with four seasons sometime in the future.

Luckily, even without the change in weather, there are still plenty of things that accompany the "season" of fall, even out here in the middle of no where (seriously, find a place populated by more than crazy scientists and nature lovers that's more geographically isolated than the Hawaiian islands.  I dare you!)  Football is still on, even if it is absurdly early in the day (kick-off at 7 am?  Really?)  Thanksgiving is still approaching and plans start to get made.  And my entertainment gets a new vigour after the end-of-summer movie-drought.

The first of October, a few books come out that I've been half-waiting for and I'll finally be able to read Hero by Alethea Kontis.  The first book in this series, Enchanted, was amazing.  The style and mastery of the writing, the skilful weaving of various fairy tale fragments into a whole... I can't wait for the next book (fingers crossed my hunch about "Beauty and the Beast" is right!).  Actually, I think I may be looking forward to this more than the last Harry Potter book.  Just to put that in perspective, I did the midnight release of the last HP book, went home and then read it until I was done.  Finished it about 10 am or so (with a 2 hour nap at about the half-way point).  I can only hope I'm not still awake when the book is delivered to my kindle or I won't get any sleep and, chances are, I'll have work the next day.

Another sequel I'm looking forward to is Lightning's Return, more for another FF game than anything.  I'm sure I'll get more excited as November approaches and I doubt I'll wait and let someone buy it for me as a Christmas present, but right now, that's pretty low on my list of anticipation. 

And then there's TV.  Next week, I will finally get new episodes and new shows to watch.  First up, Sleepy Hollow on Monday.  I'm really torn about this show, actually.  While I do enjoy watching the way people retell and re-imagine old tales, the last version of Sleepy Hollow I was forced to endure was the Depp monstrosity.  Okay, I know lots of people like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp (or there wouldn't be so many movies) but their particular brand of "dark" I find revolting.  Though my brother might not want to admit it, I do have a skewered sense of taste and the new Sleepy Hollow might not fit it.  It also might be over-done, cheesy and have poor acting or writing.  But I'll try it anyway.

The next premiere on my schedule is New Girl on Tuesday.  Castle and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiere the following week on Monday and Tuesday respectively, followed by The Big Bang Theory and Grey's Anatomy on Thursday.  Then, Once Upon a Time returns the following Sunday with it's new spin-off, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland premiering a week and a half later, on a Thursday. 

I'm actually looking forward to those two new series quite a bit.  Okay, so SHIELD seems like a no-brainer to me (I'll take my superheros just about any way I can get them, and I was so upset when they "killed" Coleson in The Avengers), but I'm actually kind of surprised by how much I'm looking forward to Wonderland.  Overall, I'm not a big fan of the "Alice in Wonderland" story.  The old Disney movie used to scare me so much so that I only watched it once every few years.  While I have of course read the book and Through the Looking Glass, I'm not overly fond of the story overall, and the way it's constantly redone makes me even less so.  But when I watched the trailer for it on Hulu, more to get an idea of what I would be watching than anything, I started to get pretty excited.

Alright, so I'm about done.  Partly because I've at least mentioned everything that comes out between now and the end of October and partly because it's after 11 and I'm still suffering the aftereffects of a migraine (yesterday, dinner was a battle) so I need to get some sleep.