Being from California, I’d like to think I’m a good judge of knowing an earthquake when I feel it. So, this morning when I woke up to feel slight tremors in my apartment, I felt silly thinking it could possibly be an earthquake. Come to find out St Louis had one this morning at 4:36 and that other Tennesseans felt it.

Since I haven’t posted in a bit, I thought I’d do a quick update.

Jury Duty on Monday wasn’t too bad, although I spent half my day just waiting. Everyone had warned me about that though, so I brought a book, which I almost finished. Anyway, I was part of a group brought up to the 6th floor (criminal courts) where we waited to enter the courtroom for jury selection. And we waited. And waited. Finally, they brought all of us inside to tell us that the case we’d been waiting to be picked for was resolved while we waited out in the hallway! The two defendants both plead guilty and that was pretty much it. So they let us go on Monday at noon! Not bad.

Then of course yesterday was Super Tuesday, although I was slightly disappointed when I found out that just because we voted yesterday didn’t mean we would actually know anything concrete on Tuesday. I just don’t follow the voting process close enough to know that the real decision isn’t made until AUGUST! And our little votes don’t really count for anything except to show our delegates how we’d like them to vote, even if that means they don’t end up voting that way. I guess I just thought by voting I was doing something a little more affective or influential.

To round things off, I just want to make a quick mention of the storms we had last night. The rain and wind at our house was pretty crazy, but I would have to say it was nothing I hadn’t seen before. The hail was fun though. We were able to stand on our front porch and watch it all come down. We were lucky enough to not have any damage or real threat of damage to our neighborhood, even though the big red circles that mean “tornado” seemed to be awfully close to our house on the “super duper live radar doppler” things. Watching the TV scared me more than the actual storm. The thunder and lightening were a bit exciting, like always, and we made it out unscathed.

The mighty gods of weather have promised us a cold front. Where is it!??! Please come soon.

that trees provide the most shelter when its raining, but that they are the last thing to drip on you when the rain has stopped?

Its RAINING!!!

Now! Not tomorrow, not yesterday. Today!  What good is THIS?????

This is what it looks like outside right now. The sky is totally black.

It was not so much “rain” as it was “a pitiful shower”. I got excited too early, I guess.

I never thought I’d be thankful for rain living in Tennessee, but it is definitely needed now. I’m glad it hasn’t come to water rationing, or anything like that, in the city. I grew up in So. Cal. and we had periods where we could only water our lawns at certain times of the day and could not water it so much that the water ran down the street. That was overuse. Anyway, glad it hasn’t come to that here, yet.