Rainy Days and Monday

The first day it rained after I returned to NY from LA it was absolutely orgastic. I freakin love New York in the rain. And I had been totally deprived to rain for too long.

However, today is cold and wet and windy and I have been studying way too much for the past five days, and I am totally grumpy. And this rainy day kind of sucked. Apparently, my Totes umbrella is "guaranteed for life" against manufactures defects, not "guaranteed" not to break on a windy rainy day leaving my backpack totally soaked. To justify buying a $20 umbrella I claimed (to myself) that it was an ecological choice because it wouldn't break and be landfill like the $4 umbrellas from the newsstands. Well, that was crap.

I bought a new $4 newsstand umbrella on the way home, and it was totally a great move. Thank you New York City Council. Suck on it, Totes!

Maybe today was just like that. On the way home I counted at least 100 umbrellas on the street that had been retired after being injured while serving. They looked like they were ready to injure some wet pedestrians.

But I also saw a girl in a pink raincoat sitting on her dad's shoulders and carrying an umbrella over both of them. I think that that is the only way to share an umbrella.

Unless it is this umbrella. Sorry, Rihanna.