Snappy cold weather.

Mid-twenties isn't really a bone-chilling cold if it isn't very humid but I'll still call it a wake up kind of cold. I'd rather not even discuss the weather as it tends to get a little too much love in the small talk of life but I also tend to think that small talk gets a bit too much disrespect from the self-proclaimed(whether verbally or by action) intellectual types and is generally written off as a form of communication below the station of said disrespecter. Small talk reflects the very core of a person's attention as well as the very core of a person's interest. Not to say everybody has the weather at the core of his or her interests... more to say that establishing human connection is and small talk is the standard form of bridge building between two people. Small talk has as much to do about subtext and context as it does the very subjects it commonly elicits. Small talk also provides a somewhat clearer vehicle of emotional expression than the weightier, more deeply drawn conversations often will. Of course, all conversation should not be entirely comprised of small talk, another example of "moderation in all things," but learning to balance, and even enjoy it, will definitely improve one's ability to communicate, in my opinion. There's always so much more to discover in every simple concept!