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fool in the rain

For the second day in a row, I’ve forgotten my umbrella and had to wallk home in the drizzle. It’s a mystery how I’ve managed to forget something important like that, since we’ve had so much rain in the past couple days — 7.09” just between Sunday and Monday mornings, according to Capital Weather — that it feels like another Great Flood is nigh.

At least I don’t drive to work anymore. Getting a little wet on the way home is infinitely preferable to dealing with bad traffic, cranky drivers, blocked roads and the like.

Random aside: Rob suggests that Metro should play “The Chicken Dance” every hour in stations and on buses to boost the morale of weary, weather delay-afflicted commuters. I might pay money to see that. It could go two ways:

1. People get into it, and random people start flapping their arms and laughing as they wait for their train. The wait time still sucks, but at least there’s something funny to watch in the meantime.
2. Mass hysteria breaks out as already-stressed commuters freak. out. and start a riot. It’s an angry, twitchy, ugly sight.

At home, the apartment is still disgustingly humid. We’ve cranked up the air conditioning, but that’s succeeded only in making the apartment dank and cold. Kinda like a basement.

Random aside #2: Words cannot describe how happy I am that I no longer live in a basement apartment. Uncomfortable as it can be, a humid apartment is certainly preferable to a flooded one: No mess, no clean-up, no damage … and no rainy days at work spent worrying whether I’ll be coming home to a fun evening of mopping and salvaging.

Meanwhile, DCist has pulled out the big guns for their weather coverage design. I love the stick man’s ambivalence — “Do i want to stay dry? Do i care about getting wet? Meh.”