It's been all stormy here for the last week or so. IT'S SO EXCITING! The other morning at 4:30 I was woken up by some ridiculously loud thunder, and I just stayed up for a half-hour watching the lightning illuminate my eyelids and listening to my house shake and rattle in its concrete boots. There's nothing I love more than rain and its smell! It's so invigorating, so thought-provoking, so satisfying, so entrancing.

"And it was raining cats and dogs out side of her window
And she knew they were destined to become
Sacred road kill on the way
And she was listening to the sound of heavens shaking
Thinking about puddles, puddles and mistakes"

Regina Spektor -- Braille
(Which is, by the way, a really nice song! The rest of her music is really good too, and so many of her lyrics are pleasantly ridiculous.)