Hello Friday: I Hate the Rain
There’s a certain contingent of Southern Californians that seem to get almost orgasmic when it rains. “I love the rain!” they insist. Or “Ooh, we really needed this rain. I’m so glad it’s here.”
I, however, am not with that crowd. I hate rain, even more than I hate snow — and I really, really don’t like snow. Rain is wet and inconvenient and depressing, depressing, depressing — which admittedly was great when I was in grad school in Pittsburgh. It seemed to rain all the time in that gray city, and it felt like I was constantly stuck in inside with my super-heavy race play, religion-baiting one-act, or one of two loss-of-innocence screenplays. Which was bad for my psyche, but great for my grades. I got a therapist my second year of grad school and thankfully made it out of there (somewhat) mentally intact.
It should also be noted that I wrote my super-angsty play L.A. play Grown-Ups on the Playground during one of the rainiest winters on record in Southern California. It was either that or throw myself off the roof of the building at my ridiculously unrewarding and mind-numbing day job.
However, I don’t write plays anymore, and right now I’m working on a rather undepressing action/adventure novel, so all of this rain is definitely getting in my way. I just hate the sound of it. I imagine it pummeling our new (to us) car and flooding our stand-alone garage and soaking my Converse through when I inevitably have to walk in it.
Plus, I woke up at 2am, and I couldn’t get back to sleep. It’s 5am now as I write this.
Stoopid rain…
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I love the rain.. until my new home. I have a run off problem and my garage is flooding badly. I have had stuff ruined, and after the thanksgiving downfall I thought I had the problem solved. UNTIL LAST NIGHT… the torrential downpour could not keep up with the newly installed Sub-pump and again… problems. It's now apparent this is going to cost me $$$$. Time to tickle the economy and hire someone. God has his own idea for a stimulus plan and it starts with me.
I love the rain.. until my new home. I have a run off problem and my garage is flooding badly. I have had stuff ruined, and after the thanksgiving downfall I thought I had the problem solved. UNTIL LAST NIGHT… the torrential downpour could not keep up with the newly installed Sub-pump and again… problems. It's now apparent this is going to cost me $$$$. Time to tickle the economy and hire someone. God has his own idea for a stimulus plan and it starts with me.
Before I was a home owner I liked the rain a lot more, now I do worry about the house. I do think there is something romantic about it though.
Before I was a home owner I liked the rain a lot more, now I do worry about the house. I do think there is something romantic about it though.
I love the rain…it makes me want to be utterly unproductive which is of course relaxing. Although I admit the overcast clouds is makes it kinda depressing. Plus I love seeing the world all clean and fresh afterward.
I love the rain…it makes me want to be utterly unproductive which is of course relaxing. Although I admit the overcast clouds is makes it kinda depressing. Plus I love seeing the world all clean and fresh afterward.
I like some forms of rain. Light misty drizzle, the tiniest of raindrops, like strolling through a fog… or thunder and lightning, gale force winds, a truly destructive storm.
But what we're having right now in LA is bleak and depressing. I am not a fan.
I like some forms of rain. Light misty drizzle, the tiniest of raindrops, like strolling through a fog… or thunder and lightning, gale force winds, a truly destructive storm.
But what we're having right now in LA is bleak and depressing. I am not a fan.
i like the rain. this is probably a good thing since i now live in seattle. ya kinda can't damn it too much, otherwise, just move, k? and we get stretches of rainy days that border on the ridiculous, but the summers here are incredible. really like nowhere else i've lived…including LA.
i like the rain. this is probably a good thing since i now live in seattle. ya kinda can't damn it too much, otherwise, just move, k? and we get stretches of rainy days that border on the ridiculous, but the summers here are incredible. really like nowhere else i've lived…including LA.