I think most people in Baton Rouge hate this weather. The sky is steel, with a hint of rain and a promise of colder weather to come. You can smell the river on the wind. Everyone is huddled inside jackets, sweatshirts, and caps, and looking thouroughly miserable.

I, on the other hand, had my sleeves rolled up and was whistling as I walked across campus. Its a great fuckin day, and I think the reason is because the sun hid for awhile. Seriously - I enjoy this weather with a passion - and I think it puts me in a far better mood than the sun ever does. Give me a 24 hour drizzle, steel clouds that billow endlessly, the hint of snow or sleet on the wind and I'm like a pig in shit. That sun comes out, and once again I'm feeling down and depressed. Maybe not down and depressed - but at least I'm not quite as cheerful.

Its some crazy shit. I agree with Richard - its much better with the clouds and with the sun (York or no York) to be firmly buried in the ground.

Of course, there's other reasons as well. Most of the best memories in my short life are from times that are shrouded in clouds and dreary weather. Standing in Erin's kitchen, in that wonderful morning post-coital glow, drinking my hot chocalate and watching the snow drizzle down onto Mt. Ripley; standing on the top of Mt. Houghton and seeing the clouds roll across Lake Superior; standing on the beach in Monterrey, in a happier time when my extended family was all together and we all didn't hate each other for some stupid reason or another; or being in San Francisco on a foggy day in China Town, with a brisk wind blowing us towards some hole in the wall restaurant that has dead chickens on the wall but some kick-ass cuisine...

Yeah, bad weather and me go together. It is only 56 out today - hopefully this becomes the norm, or lower - but it probably won't, and the forecast is predicting that we'll be back in the 70's soon enough. And sunny. I call shenanigans. I think when I'm done with this "grad school" thing, I'm going to go job hunting in Washington. Maybe Seattle. Or the Yukon.

On a side note, for those of you who may in some strange way like the kind of music I like: download Energy 52's Cafe del Mar. You can find a fairly decent remix of it on Trance Addict - if the beginning puts you off, fast forward it to 3 minutes in.

My newest song addiction - or at least my newest revival of an old addiction.

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