There is something quite idyllic about having tea in bed with someone on a sunday morning. Rain slithers down the window but you don't care, you're hidden from the world by the white linnen curtains, and all you see is blurry eyes, mussed up hair and an ironic "Yes! There really is a Kalamazoo!" mug, balanced precariously on the feathery duvet. Yeasty mouth, tired skin and soft light bathing you as you fumble muzzily for the switch.
You wish it was winter, so that you could do this all day, your only movement being your migration to the cloth couch by the roaring fire, indian rugs prickly on your tender toes. A heavy hardcover book resting on your chest as you listen to the sharp snowfall outside. The smell of pine needles, baked bread, warm milk.
Nevertheless, today you must get up, before your neighbour's lawnmower violently rouses you from your dawn stupor, so you fling open the window to the smell of freshly cut grass, dewy grapevines splashing you with leftover skydrops and a grey hazy heat. Inexplicably summer.
And yet this morning you feel an august chill, implying fall's newly sharpened pencils, squeaky tennis shoes, slippery cobblestones and autumn leaves.
So you slip into yesterday's shorts and pad quietly across the floorboards, ready to take on the summer buzz and flowery tumble of another bleary day, until you can wake up tomorrow morning, woolly-headed once more, and finally face your terrifying reverie of resonant hallways and that cold, rainy september rush.
Yes, that will be faced tomorrow. Until then, there is endless delicious time to be wasted. It's not procrastination if it's this imaginary.