pouring rain in DC area today, Classic or Dud?

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its making it a bitch to get around, but ive really missed the rain, there's been none for like 35 days or something...

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Pouring rain? Classic.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

It sounds lovely and exciting - from a distance.

― the bobfox, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

It started in Georgia yesterday (after a similar rain-drought) and I'm lovin' it.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

It's asinine. Luckily I got to work before it started in earnest and I don't have to go outside for lunch or anything. Still far too complementary to current work situation, seems like adding insult to insult.

Our satellite feed just went down for a few minutes!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's overcast here but not actually raining -- rain is good when you're already on your way home so you can get there and shimmy into warm, dry clothes and have a cig while the sky buckets down just beyond your window sill. Really a huge pain in the neck though, if it's pouring ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

i used the express as an umbrella today!

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

This is making me really really mad because I have to walk a great distance to pick up a check today...or not get it until tuesday. fucking asinine.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

That is maybe one of the two things the express is good for. (xpost)

I'm actually going to go out to Lebanese Taverna for lunch--rain be damned, I want falafel!

― quincie, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

an awesome thing is that my office building has umbrellas downstairs that we can sign out.

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

It appears to be raining sideways. That rules.

― ng-unit, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

i just wish i didn't have to walk to class, then this would just do nothing but rule.

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm going outside to smoke again and see wassup from the 8th floor. The spatter at 9:30am was ludicrous.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

i got fucking soaked walking back to the metro from cap. hill today. still, kinda cool.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Soaked on the way home from work. What was I thinking? Dud-o.

― ng-unit, Friday, 7 October 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, kids. I got caught in a light rain walking across town to Union Square but I armed myself with a milkshake and a book-buying mission and actually kind of enjoyed it. Still, this is far from YOUR weather today.

― Laurel, Friday, 7 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Classic. Much less people coming through the library, though the ones that did either brought soggy books to return or begged for plastic bags to sheath the books they were borrowing.

Slightly less classic during the commute home, whereby the rain created an even greater logjam than usual and when I could finally get moving I tended to hydraplane.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Dud dud dud motherf***ing dud. Tone played at Iota last night, but in this weather I couldn't make the effort to go out and see them.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Another good day to be stuck at work. Please, rain, keep the patrons away.

― library worker, Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

OK, I would like to reverse my earlier statment and give a hearty "fuck you" to the rain for ruining my planned outing to lose money at the Maryland Millions races today.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Saturday, 8 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

yes, i really would wish the weather to stop acting so utterly stupid or silly; of relating to, or resembling an ass.

― assy 9, Saturday, 8 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I really wanted to go to the Wheaton Friends of the Library store today. But no. It's raining so I'm making beef/baked bean/cheese/bbq sauce/biscuit casserole and listening to old UGK records.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

There's already a hole in our ceiling from the last batch of leaks, so dud. However, I'm out of town, so being in a dry city during the DC deluge=fucking classic. Hope you've got it all wrung out by the time I come back.

Mary, do you find the rainy returns just add to that moldery-book smell? (And I ask as someone who spends much of his day in & around that smell.)

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I ONLY GET TWO DAYS OFF A WEEK MOTHER NATURE YOU BITCH

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

You mean you don't find Baltimore lovely in the rain, Jess?

― steve-k, Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, my library smells like (and resembles) a non-profit Barnes and Noble more so than the dusty, dark, brooding, quistessential, say, Edinburgh Library. However, anything is better than the time I picked up a return to check it in and noticed and smelled the decisive scent of poo. An angry phone call later and the kind lady informed me that her dog had diarhhea and it had gotten all over the car, even ruined her Kate Spade bag OMG, and she was sorry she neglected to inspect her putrid books before returning same.

I wish I was in Pittsburgh, that is one of my favorite places in this great,wide nation.

― library work, Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Also, the torrential rain fall is not keeping away our fair patrons. Though the number of kind souls waiting for admission outside the doors before 9 am was a bit reduced, they have regrouped and are surging upon the library in droves, mackintoshes over head, yet somehow ever thinking that they might want to bring a bag to shelter their books, and looking at us longingly, expecting us to provide them with a magic plastic bag. As I went to lunch, I saw a guy running through the parking lot shielding his head with one of our books on tape--classy.

― library, Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Have you ever been to Edinburgh Library?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I've never been, but I saw a picture, I think. Is it nice?

― libary, Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

The National Library of Scotland is a handsome institution, inside and out.

Edinburgh University library, on the other hand, is a classic example of mid-20th-century concrete-slab architecture. I have fond memories of the building, but mostly due to its many handy dark corners than its beauty.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I hope you weren't doing anything too bad in all those handy dark corners

(speaking as a former shelving assistant there)

(I assumed the poster meant Edinburgh Central Library, which is different still of course)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Ocean be makin' clouds.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Pouring rain in D.C. yesterday was very very dud-like. The one day where I actually had to do something and couldn't just sit in and watch movies with pretty girls.

I was not happy - had to get a cab to the train station. While putting my luggage in the trunk I spilled my coffee all over the road and when removing it the trunk itself dropped onto my head. Following a very long train journey I am now in Pittsburgh which is also somewhat dud. And it's cold which makes it even dudder.

Someone give me a reason to be cheerful.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Pouring rain in DC.. SUCKS

Half the sidewalk is rushing water, the other half you get splashed by passing cars. My favorite jeans are still soaking wet and my car is parked at my friend's house in the suburbs and I think I'm coming down with a cold. WHY

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― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

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― amon (eman), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

uptoeleven, I'm in Pittsburgh too, and now fear returning to sodden DC. We could start a colony here, but I think the diet would kill me before we got very far.

Forest, when were you a shelver? You're right about Central; that's one grim pile of a building. But charming in its disheveledness, as I hope they say about me.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps it was the Central: it was dark and dank and dreary, replete with wooden tables and long shadows. I will see if I can re-find the book which had the picture.

Speaking of which, I have been so lucky this past week. The mentalist patrons gravitate toward my colleagues, and the sweet, reasonable, well-mannered patrons come to me. I haven't had to engage in psychological warfare vis vis the presumed subtefuge of a 50 cent fine, or to deal with the inconsolable loss of the woman who finds that Memoirs of a Geisha is, in fact, missing.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

What library is this that you work in, public library or university? I was at the Alexandria VA public library a couple years back and it was paradise compared to DC..

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 9 October 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

good god i had to mail some stuff today and it sucked so much to have to make the extra circuit to the post office.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 9 October 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Forest, when were you a shelver?

Um, I think it was '98-2001. Usually in the Reserve, but often in the main stacks too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 9 October 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

nyc got 4.26" of rain yesterday. we're supposed to get more tomorrow.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

That's the one, on Duke Street, It is a really lovely place, actually.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

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