torrents

In places outside my apartment, the water is running ankle deep over the sidewalks. The small river is about four feet wide, and perhaps two feet deep. It's like that on the streets in the neighborhoods. Passing underneath Mopac on my way home, the water was sheeting off the edge of the highway. I could barely see, and at one point the car beside me kicked up so much water I was blind. It was a very slow drive home.

The temperature outside is 68. Which is fantastic and unheard of for July, but rather wet. I wonder if things will flood. I don't think it will be anything like what happened in Houston last year, perhaps more like the Christmas-time floods about ten years ago.

I'm trying to chase down the proper paperwork to get my grades released in a timely manner so I can finish things here. I am constantly vexed that the world does not run on my time, because it seems so logical and simple for things to be done right now.

If the rain lets up, I might go down to Metro. I have a craving for ice cream and coffee and conversation.

a moment in the sun

It came out, briefly and I left the house. The sky did this amazing thing, with the south a dark blue wall, and these lower level clouds a dirty white patterned underneath. I can't remember ever seeing a sky like that in the summer, and it just reinforced the weirdness of the whole week. It was beautiful though.

My first parking ticket ever. For being too far away from the curb. How strange. I've never had a ticket before.

Played Shanghai Rummy and tied the low score - high wilds run with ten points and eighteen wild cards. We broke for dinner at WanFu II, and I've noticed that both are wildly inconsistent in terms of quality. Well, we can't have everything.

My new Metro love, since Kim has gone away, is now Michelle.

I also found my Counting Crows cd, while looking for something else. Things aren't so bad.