The rain it raineth every day

[desperance]

If it doesn't stop raining soon, I shall go mad.

Go mad, or go out and get needlessly wet. One or the other. There is beginning to be no other option.

I don't believe I got out of the door at all yesterday. Today, I was all set: bag packed for Lit & Phil, all I had to do was dump this morning's work onto the thumb drive and I was away.

Except the damn thumb drive wouldn't thumb. Hardware couldn't find it, or software couldn't recognise it, I dunno. I tried logging out and logging back in again: no difference. I tried a soft reboot: no difference. I tried a hard reboot, and yay. We have thumbs.

I copied the file, added the drive to the laptop bag, put on my boots, looked out of the window - and saw umbrellas.

It's tipping down.

Ordinarily, rain won't stop me. Ordinary rain won't stop me. That? Would just be stupid. I'd get to the library soaked and pathetic, and drip miserably onto the laptop. Which is Heavenly and Perfect, and so like a cat, and so does not like to be wet.

And no, of course I don't need to go to town. Yes, of course I can stay in and work here. Of course I can.

Just, I can't think sitting down. It's the walking that matters. I'm okay today, because the storyline's been doing a fair bit of dropping into place lately, and I can see as far as the headlights can reach - but that may only be one day's work, maybe two. I need to get out there. I need a break in the weather.

I don't actually positively need your actual sunshine, but, y'know? It is August. It might be nice.

Comments

[time-freak.livejournal.com]

I had also been hoping for some sunshine to keep me cheered now that S has gone away. Opened curtains and it's like fucking November out there. I did the cat thing and tried looking out of a window at the other side of the house, just in case. November out of that side too :-(

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

It is ah raining here also down the road. I could really do with some sitting under a parasol pretending I'm working while watching the girls in their summer clothes, but . . . The need to get the dark glasses out would be appreciated.

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

We had sunshine this morning (after the drain raising downpour of yesterday - there was thunder & lightning even. First time this year, for us.) But now the clouds are moving in again.
I like being at home in the rain (hopefully with a nice fire, a good book and comestibles) but being at work when it's lashing it down is a complete pain. :-(

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I shopped. I went out for emergency vegetables, and now I am wet. (I also swam this morning, after which, oddly enough, I was not wet. Not this sort of wet, anyway...)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I swear I'm moving to Spain when I get rich. Want to come with us?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I could go scout locations, so that we're well prepared when the time comes. I could go now...?

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Only if you take me with you.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Great weather, isn't it?

I bet the frogs are thrilled.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

My best friend Corvidae winolj would agree with you 100%. Me, I quite like it raining. But then, I'm weird.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Well, this frog is happy, at least! I'm stuck in the city, translating books into French. Why should I wish for hot sun to pound on my roof and let me simmer gently in my juices? Better a few showers to keep temperatures down to reasonable values.

Now, a whiff of cool breeze to stir up the airs would be most welcome, but I don't want to appear too greedy.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Send us your rain. Especially North Carolina and Georgia. They'd be so grateful, and say so many nice things about you. All you need to do is get the rain system into a box; I'm sure a parcel service would come and pick it up.

[abserdman.livejournal.com]

The Kinnessburn has flooded three times in the last week. There are sticks and mud all over the road. It's quite exciting really!

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

I remember when I lived in the Cotswolds (sp?) we joked about the two weeks of summer every year.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Cotswolds - sp [tick]

And yes, indeed - but it's the hills like the Cotswolds (or, up here, more dramatically the Pennines) that are supposed to field all the damn rain and stop it coming over to the east. This is the dry side of the country. Grrr! Splish!

[jemck.livejournal.com]

Writing from the aforesaid (and correctly spelled) Cotswolds, nope, we haven't seen it so far.

This week has seen days of alternate hours of blustery sunshine followed by leaden skies and downpours, one of which included thunder and lightning yesterday.

The ground is saturated. If we lived in one of the places that flooded last summer, we'd be nervous...

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't stop raining soon, I shall go mad.

Go mad, or go out and get needlessly wet. One or the other. There is beginning to be no other option.

I quibble with that use of "needlessly." It looks to me like your need to get wet is fairly dire. Unless you have great foul-weather gear. Which might do you good, in the long run. A few years ago, when I was gainfully employed, I went to one of those stores that sells camping gear, and bought a gore-tex rain jacket big enough to wear over my medium-weight jacket. I looked longingly at the gore-tex rain pants, but ended up getting the much cheaper pants that only claim to be mostly waterproof, and not breathable. Best of all, I got a hat which is not only waterproof, it FLOATS.
http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=stowaway-hat&categoryId=40129&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&parentCategory=502858&cat4=502857&shop_method=pp&feat=502858-tn&np=Y
(When I got mine, it was shaped a bit differently, and came in better colors. But there's no reason for you to get a US hat, in any case.) My glasses stay dry, my hair stays out of the way, and everybody in the neighborhood recognizes me from 2 blocks away. They don't know my name. I suspect they just think of the hat, walking to the early train every morning from a crazy distance away.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay floaty rain-hat! My own hat - which is neither - just got soaked, and sat on my head like a very wet thing.

For yes, you were entirely right; the thing I needed most to do was to get out there and get wet. So I went to the pub.

Life is better now.

Also, we are promised more rain tomorrow; and I am promised more pub.