Tea, Fire and Boredom
Rain!!!
It’s a bad sign when the first thought of the morning/afternoon is “Shit, I’m going to miss lunch”. I was up until 4AM last night. I wasn’t up for any reason. I didn’t have reading to do, papers to write or tests to study for. I just got wired on tea, so I didn’t get really sleepy until about 3:30 AM. I’m gonna be screwed when I have to get up at a “decent” hour to go to work or do anything productive during the day.
In other productive thoughts of the day, I now know of an animal that has worse survival skills than my dog Oscar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGz97dxGHV8&feature=related
It started raining a little bit today. I have to say, consistent rain has been a refreshing difference from home. The idea that it may rain several times in a month, and perhaps even for an entire week is something strange and new for me. Enjoying the rain has been one of my favorite hobbies as of this early spring. A few weeks ago it rained off and on for an entire week. Twice in 24 hours, I was caught without an umbrella walking somewhere far from my dorm. It was lots of fun, though Meg almost damaged her laptop because we were caught so off guard. It seems like there is more rain coming, thunderstorms to boot. Every time the rain clouds come, there is a nervous energy in the air. Moist air moves in and areas of high and low pressure power out strong winds. Nature creates her own foreshadowing for such displays of power. The lights in the sky go out and hopefully all hell breaks loose.
And each time it happens I hope that the rain will completely flood out half of campus. That would be a lot of fun. Normally walking to class can be a mundane chore, but imagine boating to your first class in a makeshift canoe. Hell, if you were in a class like engineering, you wouldn’t even need to go to class. The very act of constructing a sea worthy boat would be more applied engineering than you could ever hope to get in a classroom.
It’s more of a dream/ideal than anything else. Each time the winds come rushing through and the Nature promises rain, it only lasts a few hours or days. Perhaps it’s good. I’ll always have something to hope for. And getting my literal wish of months upon months of rain might get boring after the 8th week of more rain.
