Snake Surly: fallin' on my head

Dude, it's raining. WTF?

I have NOTHING against rain (okay, that's not true, I will clariify that shortly). I moved to Seattle after I finished high school partly because it's damp and soggy there. I prefer colder weather. I like to wear sweaters. And the longer it rains here in the fairly unscenic East Bay (Pig Latin for "Beast"), the longer the hills stay green and pretty.

But, DUDE, it's California in the middle of freakin' May, otherwise known as summer! It should be sunny most of the time. How am I supposed to go to the gym and swim and lay around on the deck chairs if it's RAINING?

Two days ago it was so hot out that I had to wear sandals and a sun hat. Yesterday it was somewhat overcast and muggy. Today it's completely overcast, drizzling (which is normally the kind of rain I like (Seattle-style), instead of the normal yucky California rain that falls in big drops and gets on my neck WHICH I HATE.) and icky sticky humid. It's 78 degrees in the house, and I'm about to go turn the AC on. MAKE UP YOUR MIND, STUPID WEATHER! Is it spring or is it summer? Or are we back to winter'?

This makes the baby Jeebus cry.

p.s. I bought some yarn yesterday. It's great. I'm too crabby to knit it right now.

people i know

Amy Yasuda
One-line biography? No way, it can't be done in one sentence.
Bob
Bob is an even bigger flirt than I am.
Kevin
Kevin works at Google. He's like, rich and stuff.
Kris
Kris is the hottest PhD in the world!
Margar!
She has time to like, read and stuff.
Robyn
A kindred spirit if I ever saw one!

Like I Ever Read

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee: At Knit's End : Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Sometimes it's stressful going to see a friend in a play. If they suck in it, you can't just come out and say so. Fortunately, most of my actor friends kick ass onstage. It's the same when people you know write a book. True, I only know Stephanie through her blog, but I feel like I know her like a friend. Anyway, I needn't have stressed. Her book is absolutely delightful. It's sweet and warm and funny and truthful and makes me very proud to be a fellow knitter.
Scarf Style : Innovative to Traditional, 31 Inspirational Styles to Knit and Crochet
I adore this book. I've completed two scarves from it, am working on a third, and am trying to decide which one to do next. There's almost nothing in it I wouldn't wear.
Debbie Stoller: Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook
This is what passes for reading around here these days. Actually, this was quite entertaining and really, really helpful. I'd recommend this highly to beginning knitters.
Douglas Coupland: Microserfs
I enjoyed this book when it first came out, mostly because Dennis' house was just like the Redmond group house. But I didn't really relate to it. DAMN, it's weird reading it now.
David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
This is Sedaris' best work ever. It's not constantly blow-to-the-head funny like his earlier books, but his writing has never been so beautiful. Who knows how it really was in childhood? We all view our past through a filter, but Sedaris speaks of his adolescence with a razor-sharp clarity and understanding. That said, the piece about "6 to 8 black men" was so funny I was gasping for breath, and Rob nearly drove off the road laughing. It's a good thing we were driving on 680 and not Highway 1. We'd have gone over a cliff for sure.
Timberlake Wertenbaker: Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays One : New Anatomies, the Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, the Love of the Nightingale, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Faber Contemporary Classics)
Did I mention how brilliant this play is? I just went to Limelight and got myself a copy (I still want this collected works edition, though, hint hint). When I first read it, I cast myself as Duckling, because of her heartbreakingly beautiful and poetic monologue in the second act. After reading the novel, I want to be Mary Brenham, who is a much more complicated character. DAMN, this play is good.
Thomas Keneally: Playmaker
This book was freakin' brilliant. Troy loaned it to me because I just read (and went apeshit for) the play "Our Country's Good", by the deliciously named Timberlake Wertenbaker. Wertenbaker based the play on this book, which is about the convict settlers of Australia. I want to do this play so badly I can almost taste it.
Sarah Vowell: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
This chick rewls. I wish I was this smart, but I'm not. Rob and I drove around in the car all day so I could read this out loud.
Wil Wheaton: Just a Geek
Wil Wheaton is the coolest! I had to deliberately put this down so I wouldn't read it in one sitting.

Comments

Boo hoo. One day it's 30 and sunny and the next day it's 78 with thunder storms. I have all my summer clothes and all my winter clothes in big boxes in my bedroom because I don't know what is safe to put away. Cry me a river, sister.

Posted by: Abbie | 2005.05.19 at 04:06 PM

Baby want a bottle?

Posted by: Kate | 2005.05.19 at 06:33 PM

If it makes you feel any better, we're getting ridiculous amounts of big fat raindrops in Seattle, too. As you know, Seattle rain normally doesn't require an umbrella. The way it's raining now, no umbrella known to man will keep your sorry ass dry. Boo. Let's all move to Maui!

Posted by: Megan | 2005.05.20 at 03:23 PM