Rain, Ice Cream and Lots of Moola

You know what's not fun? Trying to make a paper about a really boring topic not suck. Yeah, it's a lot harder than you'd think. I still like holing out in the library with coffee and hearing the rain. Actually, I believe today was divine intervention for me to get my paper done right. I know this because it stopped raining briefly... the time it took me to walk my paper from the library to its drop off point. Weird. Then, my day brightened considerably because I came home to find my tax return in the mailbox. Picture heavenly inspired music here. I walked all the way to the bank at like a minute to five, hoping it would still be open. It was, sadly but predictably, not.

Instead of "damning the man" as I might otherwise have been inclined, I decided to get an ice cream cone. I mean, c'mon. Paper's done way ahead of schedule, I'll be putting gross amounts of money into my account tomorrow, and it was a calm, light autumn rain. I have decided that I always want to remember Dunedin as I saw it this afternoon. Leaves crunching beneath hundreds of feet, a light enough rain that you wouldn't even bother using an umbrella, caramel cookie ice cream in your hand, it was great! It's interesting to see weather like that because it's a good opportunity to divide people into two mass groups (there are lots of these situations: people who like vanilla v. chocolate, pepsi v. coke, etc). People who slow down and people who speed up in this light rain. Half of the people slow down and enjoy the scenery, the ambiance of the landscape; half of the people speed up to get out of the blasted rain. Needless to say, I am one of the slower-downers.

So I encourage (or preach, as my dad would tend to believe :) ) everyone to slow down next time it starts raining. I am not encouraging enjoying a monsoon, but as Roger Miller says, "Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet." Why settle for getting wet?