No Soup For You!

It's another one of those gloomy autumn days, well by SoCal standards anyway, a bit brisk and cloudy, depressing the living daylights out of me. Even surrounded by my co-workers I feel completely isolated. I can't decipher exactly how these days shine a spotlight on my loneliness, but I feel utterly abandoned. I'm sure the impending weekend doesn't help matters much, not to mention the latest conversation aborted by the five o'clock curfew. It's a kind of day that makes me crave a comforting soup, one I sip curled up under a blanket and in the soothing embrace of my beloved.