Oh yuck yuck yuck. I woke up half an hour ago to steadily falling rain. I hoped it would taper off by now, but no, I’m going to get to either a) ride my bike or b) walk to class in this crap. It’s days like this that I miss the lovely Stinger and how it would pick me up and drive me to the aerospace building. Ha — there aren’t even any public access roads that lead to my building here. I’m going to be soaked. Yes, the rainy season has begun.
(11:29 a.m.)
Ohhhh my god it is so miserable outside. I had no pants to wear this morning except jeans, which of course take forever to dry, so I rode to class and then sat through structures and controls shivering. Then I walked into math, which is held in this huge auditorium where apparently no one can figure out how to turn off the air conditioning. See, the climate here is such that you really don’t need A/C all that often anyway, but some of the newer buildings have it…and they don’t know how to TURN IT OFF. Hence, it is always cold. I am always cold in math class as it is, and today, I just couldn’t stand the thought of sitting there in the arctic for an hour and a half in my still soaking-wet jeans, so I turned around and came home. So here I sit with a nice cup of hot apple cinnamon tea listening to music, and it is lovely. Too bad I have to start doing homework.
(11:59 p.m.)
All I’ve done today is complain about the rain. Blah. It stopped raining, though it is still wet, and there is more to come. But it stopped for now.
Flute ensemble tonight was nice. Victoria — the girl who plays the solos on this gorgeous three-movement Irish piece we’re playing — wasn’t there, and since I’m second chair on that piece, I got to play them for a night. That was a lot of fun. I’m so glad I was able to continue playing my flute out here. Even though I don’t play nearly as much as I did in high school, I would really miss it if I wasn’t in some kind of musical group tooting my flute.
