Fall is here...

The leaves are turning and it's starting to get colder. Ok, not really. This is California. It's still in the 70's every day. I think of You've Got Mail around this time because of the opening scene where they discuss how the fall inspires a desire to buy school supplies. Tom Hanks says that he would send Meg Ryan a bouquet of sharpened pencils if he knew where she lived.
Anyway, I bring this up because I recently found a rubber band on my desk that smells just like those rubber playground ball we used to play four square and Greek dodge ball with in elementary school. I always loved the way those smelled. This little strip of stretchiness took me back to the times when I'd open up the coat closet and the dense aroma of rubber and fun would envelop me. Anyway, I guess I could finish up about nostalgia for a simpler time when my only worries were catty girls on the playground. But really, I just like the smell...