05.21.09
There’s weather again!
Last night we had a potluck at a colleague’s house to welcome a sizeable group of new arrivals to post. Part of the way through the evening, I looked out the window and felt almost giddy as I noticed drops of water falling off the side of the building.
To my knowledge, there has not been one drop of precipitation in this city since the 5- or 10-minute spate of drizzle during the terrorist attacks in November, and nothing that could actually be called “rain” since late August or so. The lack of any actual weather – or even so much as a few clouds – has been driving me completely insane.
When we got outside at the end of the night yesterday, my hopes were confirmed: it hadn’t just been some upstairs neighbor washing off their balcony – it was real rain! Ahhhh, I can’t describe how incredibly good it felt.
05.11.09
Sometimes, all you really want…
… is to reliably be able to go to the store and buy what seem like a few very simple ingredients, then be able to come home to a place you can actually call your own, talk on the phone to a good friend while baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, then curl up on a couch with a blanket, warm cookies, a glass of cold milk, a good book, and a nice cold rain outside the window, and act like a normal human being.
