i grew up in oregon, where it rains nine or ten months a year. i stopped using an umbrella when i was in grade school. the closest thing i have to a raincoat is an old worn out leather jacket i got from my parents' closest. the rain doesn't really bother me.
er, so i thought. when the sky is still bawling its eyes out and you have to spend the first 35 minutes of your day walking around in a typhoon, it's kind of not nice. in fact, it rather sucks.
the thing is, as my dear friend serena pointed out to me, the rain here seems to fall in all directions at once, so there's really no avoiding it. it comes from underneath and all sides in addition to above. and the wind? well, it turns cheap umbrellas inside out.
after spending all day at work studying (i'm not kidding, there was no reason for me to go to work today), i went back out into the typhoon and spent another forty minutes getting drenched to go to the city office for our weekly meeting.
you take the good, you take the bad...
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Yea, the rain and wind really does suck er... blow. Have you found a durable enough umbrella for the typhoons? Maybe an umbrella is not a good idea... you might end up as a Mary Poppins of the 21 century. Yikes!
It was nice to seeing you back in December. I think I may I may have helped with your Christmas illness. I was pretty sick after that also.
Keep dry and warm (or at least try).
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