Just Peachy

Raining cats and dogs, my foot!  Try raining lions and wolves!  Arrgh!

Today, I got caught in torrents of rain and gales of wind that would put Manila’s typhoons to shame.  That is probably an exaggeration.  But tell that to my poor, drenched body.  I looked like a drowned rat two seconds after stepping into the rain — yes, with a payong, thank you very much.  Though the umbrella didn’t do me any good, it kept my research stuff from getting wet.

Damn my research that made me run to the library when I could be in my warm, comfortable room in the first place.  Damn global warming that makes it pour in the summer, when it should be nice and warm. Damn our lifestyles that contributes to global warming, throwing nature’s sense of timing out of whack (grumble, grumble, grumble).

Let me try to recall my second-grade water cycle lessons:  water vapor goes up into the skies, then cools and helps build clouds, and then the clouds get heavy, and when it can’t hold itself up anymore, rain pours…waaaitaaaaaminute!!!  Does that mean that, in fact, it is supposed to rain more in the summer, since it’s warmer, and therefore, there’s more water vapor, and so on?  If that were true, how come it never rains that much in the summer in the Philippines???  Damn the US and it’s crappy, unpredictable weather. 

The water cycle was the last thing on my mind while I was walking around in my squishy shoes.  My biggest concern was how to dry my sneakers (Should I put them in the dryer?  Should I hold a blow-dryer to them until they dry?  Should I leave them outside when the rain lets up, and let them air-dry?), and how it’s really justified that a person should have more than several pairs of shoes.  More than several, actually.  After all, it could rain all week, all month, it may flood, and our shoes won’t be dry soon enough, and we might all need to build an ark, and we need shoes to pace around and strategize and ration our food supplies…yup, can’t have those splinters getting into your feet.  Yes, I’m definitely getting more shoes ASAP.   

~ by celle-baby on July 26, 2007.