SCIENCE: 10-day Rain Forecasts are Worse than Puberty

Just BTW, before we get whining, er, going here, that last post? Yesterday's? Our 100th. Oh yeah. Lots o' fanfare.

But back to the topic at hand.

I remember, back from the salad days of blocks before lunch, 2-3 hours of preschool after, then a snack, then maybe some more play and more free food, a particular jingle. A Sesame Street classic, really. It went:

"It's a rainy day! It's a rainy day./The sun's not out, so we can't go out and play./Why do we need the rain, anyway?"

After that it went into explanations of how great flowers are, and how much we want animals not to die horrible deaths of thirst, and the mechanics of replenishing the water table. At least, I assume that's what happened next; the audio gets fuzzy just after "anyway," though the video reel distinctly shows at least one flower. I was 3, my remembering the first few lines is pretty damned remarkable, okay?

Point is, even Sesame Street, that bastion of positive thought and numbers, knows that the first reaction to a rainy day is 'this sucks.'

(Nice try, guys)------->

No surprise that the song wasn't "it's the tenth rainy f*cking day in a row, what the f*ck am I supposed to do with this?" Even Elmo can't explain god's crying for that long without going all fire-and-brimstone, or just ending up rocking, silently, in a corner.

Right now it is not the 10th rainy day, it's probably the fifth. In some ways I think this is worse. The main way? Trying to pull my spirits, and my socks, out of the dirty water backing up from the gutters when I know that it's gonna be like this tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after...

...I'd write more, but I need all my energy just to not crawl back into bed, curl up into the fetal position, and cry.

Got a song for that one, SS?

-Posted by Jilly