- my thoughts on water falling from the sky -

There's supposedly the possibility of severe weather tonight.... I say bring it on. I love a good thunderstorm. All the noise and lightning and wind and buckets of rain... I think it's awesome. Here's the reason I think I like rain so much - I've watched too many nature documentaries. Especially the ones about Africa, when during the dry season all the waterholes slowly dry up and disappear, the rivers and streams become little trickles of water, plants start to die and the ones that don't get eaten, animals move off in a desperate search for water, and lots of animals perish. But then a thundercloud appears on the horizon, a few drops of rain fall, and then down it comes, bringing the entire land back to life. I can only imagine how good it feels to all those animals when the rain finally comes back and brings food and water and a cool place to swim. So I try to appreciate rain instead of cursing it and trying to avoid it. I don't use umbrellas, ever - I don't even have one. Like in the movie Instinct, when he's with the gorillas in the rain, and he's holding this big leaf over his head trying to keep dry, and he looks over and all the gorillas are just sitting around chillin in the rain. So he realizes how silly and human it is to try to keep off the rain, and throws the leaf away and enjoys the shower. Of course this isn't Africa, and there is no real dry season here, but still, I don't like to think of that as a nuisance, but sort of a blessing if you will.

Well we just finished a rousing game of Latin Jeopardy. I think we're going to play some more tomorrow, we didn't even get halfway through the board today. Review time can be fun sometimes. Plus it's for extra credit on the final. Anyways... time to go catch the bus home and take a nap.  i posted this at 9:37 AM ---