This weekend one of my least favorite things of the year occurred.  The clocks turned back an hour.  The extra hour of comatose goodness was welcome and necessary, especially since a) it was a holiday weekend which meant at least one long night and b) there was a house full of boys that needed to be dealt with.  However, that annoyingly inconvenient act of resetting all of  your clocks means that for the next 8 months it’s going to be dark, dreary, and cold.  These are the months where you can find me in hibernation ordering delivery and staying in all night – or – in a dark bar huddled over a pint of beer trying to remember what it’s like to not have to pile on 57 sweaters to prevent immediate frostbite only to descend into an overheated, overcrowded subway car.

Winter.  It is not my time of year.

But before I get ahead of myself and mother nature, maybe I should give a recap of a beautiful autumn weekend spent with an unlikely group of friends.  My friend, Arvid, whom I met back in the spring on my escape to Amsterdam was in the country traveling for a few weeks and I invited him to stay for a few days.  Meanwhile, I had forgotten that my crazy Irish neighbor was moving in for a month because his lease was up.  I also had a bad cold that was made worse the previous weekend because I was in Vegas.  And it was Halloween.

I guess I needn’t have worried though.  The Irishman brought his own bed, so everyone had a place to crash.  I decided to suck it up and go out on Halloween, which was totally worth it.  Arvid and Vince got along well so when I ditched them to get into a warehouse party, they had their own welcome home party for me later on that night.  I guess living with boys isn’t so bad.  Now if only I could say that about dating them.  Sigh.

At any rate, here’s a photo recap.  One or two of these will be going in my book (another post *still* to come on that), but I kind of already have which ones picked out in my head.  So maybe you could just guess which one this time??  That’s kinda lame.  Just enjoy.

1. A Cigarette on the Roof

2. The Roommate

3. A Norwegian in Brooklyn

4. November Sunset in Billyburg

5. My Only Tolerable Sweater