WOW it's windy

This blustery weather makes me wonder if a storm is coming? Las Cruces experiences many days like this, in which the weather becomes overcast and windy and there are storm clouds in the distance. It teases us into thinking there will be rain, and then OOOH fooled again! There are some days when it actually does storm, though, and those days are wonderful. I hope tonight will be one of those times. I learned a few years ago that rain smells different, depending on where you are. I learned this my very first evening living in Las Cruces. My dad and some of Shanda's friends had helped Shanda and I move into our apartment, and literally about ten seconds after we moved the last piece of furniture in, it started raining. We drove over to Dion's for dinner, and the parking lot was literally already starting to flood. I vividly remember the smell; it was definitely (and obviously) the smell of rain, but it smelled differently from the rain in Los Alamos. It was like rain mixed with desert mixed with city. I actually like how the rain smells here. And going back to a previous sentence about flooding, Las Cruces has a terrible drainage system. There are certain parking lots that resemble a shallow lake after a good 20-minute downpour. The parking lot of the apartments my sis and I used to live at was like that, as well as all the areas between the dorms on campus, and the park near those apartments. The roads become temporary rivers. It's great.
If it rains tonight I will have me a legitimate excuse not to go running ;)

I'm playing hooky tomorrow. Don't tell on me. I only have one class on Fridays, and he doesn't take attendance. I figured I'd treat myself to a four-day weekend instead, with Labor day. Plus I can use the time to get caught up on reading before mi mama gets here.
Okay earlier today I had a brief thought about Thanksgiving and Christmas and I got excited. Pathetic, right? The holidays are still three months away! I probably yearned for that time of the year because it's so brutally hot here and the thought of lounging in my flannel PJ pants by the fire while it snows outside and relaxing from a hard day of being out in the beautiful whiteness or ice skating, sounds utterly appealing.

I suppose I'll go do some reading now. Until later, Merry September 3rd! :-)