Friday rain

Right now Becca and I are getting ready for our fake dates. I convinced Becca to text Kyle's twin brother Kirk and ask him to go my friend Chelsea's recital as well. Becca and I have wanted to go on a double date with them since the Murray Chick-Fil-A when Kyle called me Becca's "Kirk." (Becca had been saying how she wished I was there and Kyle commented how we seem to do everything together, hence the twin comparison.)

Here's some photo evidence of mine and Becca's fake twinship. (Possibly more to come.)

In other news, it rained a lot today! It was both awesome and notsome (the opposite of awesome if you didn't already know) because I had to walk to one of the farthest north buildings on campus for a scholarship luncheon. I did get quite wet but I also got an amazing, free lunch out of it. The rain was also super refreshing. I wore my Chacos and for some reason they make me fearless when it comes to stepping in puddles and traipsing across campus. Also, the way it smells before and after it rains is wonderful. Utah rain isn't quite as nice as Wisconsin rain but it's not terrible.

The rest of the day was spent on campus doing various things but perhaps my favorite part of the day was visiting my friend/TA Bradley so he could help me fix my paper for my Utah history class. We worked on the paper for maybe 15 or 20 minutes but I ended up being there for about an hour and a half because we got caught up talking. This is technically the third class we've taken together in the last three semesters; one class we were both students in and the other two he was the TA for. We made a pact that if I win the bracket tournament Professor Fluhman holds, I'll let him in on whatever I choose for my prize. Chances are I'll choose to go out to dinner w/ Fluhman and his awesome wife or to have Family Home Evening with the whole Fluhman family. I'm pretty excited to see if I pull out the win though. We're pretty sure I've got it locked up.

Winning that March Madness bracket challenge will probably make my entire collegiate experience feel  complete. I mean, as complete as it can be without yet having graduated.

The cool and the rain

So as I sit on my freshly made bed, the window to my right is pretty much completely open. A gentle wind blows the smell of rain into my room. And that's the way I like it. I like things cool, I like things upon which it has rained.

I'm known to complain quite often about how I want some gosh dang snow. Where is all the snow in Utah? Clearly not where I am living. And that's made for a pretty lame winter. (I haven't gone sledding once!) And now it's mid-March when things are allowed to warm up a bit but there hasn't been anything from which it could warm. There were days in January and February where it hit almost 50. That's no winter.

That's probably why I like the rain so much. It cools things down which is exactly what I like. Don't get me wrong, summer is great. But that's the thing: it had better be somewhere between late May and August. Seasons exist for a reason and what's the point of having lots of different kinds of weather if all that's going to happen is a pell-mell assault of sun and heat and rain and whatever else? There needs to be seasons.

For now I will enjoy my cool night and the sound of the rain and feel of the breeze through my window. And in my room I will stay lest my roommates incessantly proclaim how it's cold outside and how the living room should be that warm. I shouldn't be practically sweating whilst wearing a t-shirt and canvas shorts!