It’s still dark why am I not asleep
Sometime during the winter I must have forgotten what a thunderstorm was, because I woke up this morning and was all What’s all this water about? And the trees. Why are they flopping all over the place like silly floppy things?
But I suppose I’ll have to reacquaint myself. I’ve never had a dog during thunderstorm season, nor have I ever lived in a place that didn’t have sidewalks through grassy areas in the way that this place doesn’t—it looks like we’ve got some muddy walks ahead of us.
Lucky for me, Sam isn’t the sort of dog who’s afraid of thunderstorms. At all. He thinks the storm is nifty, and he doesn’t understand why we’re not going outside to pee on it RIGHT NOW. On the other hand, thunderstorms apparently make the yippy dog upstairs ANGRY. But the whooshing pretty much drowns her out, so it’s not so bad.
Funny story: the combination of wind swirling around and rain blowing against my building sounds exactly like an oncoming train. Great. So the official “tornado about to tear shit up” signal is no longer “train noise” but “two train noises, the ordinary one plus another that’s louder and scarier.” My building does look pretty sturdy, but I counteract that by sleeping under a window, so the distinction is kind of important.
Oh wow. The storm’s dying down, but there was this random huge thunderclap just now that set off at least three car alarms outside my window. Man, that’s terrible. Cacophonous. If you were one of my tutoring students, you’d be breaking cacophonous into its roots right now.
My internet connection actually died fifteen minutes ago (as I was about to check the online weather report), so I’ll have to post this later. Since I’m awake anyway, I guess I’ll go finish my Latin homework. No, this isn’t the same assignment that was due a week ago*. We probably have a quiz today, too. On something. Syllabus is online, can’t check it. Whatevs.
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* Yes it is.
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