a billowy, blustery day
Today a tornado warning was issued for much of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh. We didn't get any tornadoes, but we did get a lot of rain and thunder and wind. Now, Duquesne sits up on the Bluff and so is generally fairly windy. Today it was insane. Umbrellas were useless, even if they didn't buckle in on themselves the rain just got blown sideways.
My umbrella - which did buckle in on itself and kept me not at all dry - is fired.
I got to class soaked. Dried to "damp" during class, then had to go back out into the wet to get to my next class. And me, idiot that I am, thought that since it was 64 degrees out I could get away with a t-shirt and flipflops.
"Cold" does not quite begin to describe it.
There is a silver lining to my day, though. My Communications Ethics class (ie, "the worst class ever") is cancelled tomorrow. This makes two weeks in a row without that horrible class in my life, since I skipped it last week. Ignoring for the moment the ethics of skipping an ethics class, not having to be there makes me ridiculously happy.
Today I also saw the Clerks 2 trailer for the first time. It's being released in theaters on August 18th. I'm so excited I could wet myself. (But I won't.)
I finished my latest book last night (James Patterson's Honeymoon). It was a little slow to start, but once I got past page 45 or so I couldn't put it down. Actually, I ended up reading p. 45 to the end last night. Something like 300 pages, took me about two hours. That's what I love about Patterson. The stories are interesting but they don't take any great thought or effort to get through. Kind of like literary candy.
Can't decide what to read next. Maybe I'll go back to Gabaldon, get my Scots fix.
5 days til TARTAN DAY
24 days til finals.
15 days of classes left in the semester.