In weather news, I finally got the rain I'd been wishing for for weeks! By Thor, did I get it. I got soaked in it, drenched in it, shoes turned into little submersibles[1], jeans like a fisherman's who forgot to roll them, hair frizzy and unstructured again ( Read more... )

Oh, ye beautiful, glorious, sky-spanning lightning bolts!

Oh, mighty gales of wind and the majestic rain-pouring clouds you've brought!

But most of all oh, you life-giving, sorely missed rain and cool air!

To you I sing! (And sung I have indeed, with my hands in the air, to the tune of Princes of the Universe, for I am geeky and lightnings ( Read more... )