03 August 2006

False daylight

It makes me a little sad to know that, were I back home in Almonte, or just outside town, actually, it would be pitch black. But since I'm not just in the city, but in downtown Ottawa, the light pollution is such that the dense cloud cover makes it light enough to read out on my balcony. Not that I'm going to do that, because it's all wet, thanks to the wonderfully fantastic thunderstorm and continuing rain that we had tonight.

It was raining so hard when I left work this evening that it was almost like stepping into a wall of water. I couldn't see the road across the parking lot, and I could barely see the headlights of cars driving along it.

So I walked to the bus stop, laughing at all the people running for cover. It was raining enough that no matter how fast you ran, you'd get soaked through and through.

Now, sadly, it's 19C. Time to go curl up under my duvet.

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