Water, Water, Everywhere - And Not a Drop for Showers

Today marked the first dreary weather I've experienced since I got here. I'd had gray skies, sure, all the time, and sometimes a light drizzle, but today it was rain. From morning to night. And I certainly wore the wrong shoes for it. My toes are so cold!

But it does make me happy. "English weather!" I thought, a cheerful converse feeling to the day's grim darkness. I even donned my rabbit fur jacket (not needed until now), a multitude of layers, and my pink-and-black umbrella. I did feel sort of bad when I saw one of the UEA rabbits hop by with its cousin 'round my neck, but I also felt warm, which sort of evened it all out.

My room has a skylight and it was just comforting to watch the rain fall this afternoon, listening to the steady rhythm. But I was right in a prediction I made two months ago: rain doesn't smell like it does in Arizona. There's no deep breath of creosote and wet, dusty, desert dirt - there is wet earth and the nearly undetectable scent of water, but Arizona rain trumps Norwich rain in scent(though not in amount).

In other watery news, half the halls on campus have lost access to the main waterline (since about seven a.m. this morning). We've just been given a reserve water tank, which is awesome (you should have seen the load of dishes in the sink!), but showers are still unadvised. I plan on taking a shower tomorrow no matter what (sorry, reservoir tank, but I have things to do and don't intend on doing them without a shower!), but I hope it's fixed incredibly soon. It's a flashback to the horrible apartment (flat) that Brittany and I lived in two years ago. The water used to just stop working all the time!

Finally, I wanted to direct you guys to my current photography project. It's sort of silly, but I love it and hope you'll think it's at least interesting. It's called The Photographer Photographer (or Photog-Squared) and the idea is that instead of always getting the tourist photo, I get a photo of the tourists getting the photos! Well, anyway, I'm hoping to do a photo a day for at least a year. It may just end up being a personal goal instead of a public blog thing, but if you like it, drop some comments on your favorite photographer photographs. There's only one up currently, but they are set to auto-post every day. Tomorrow you'll get one of my favorites.

As always, my travel photos are available through my Facebook (link on the sidebar), where my London photos have FINALLY been uploaded. I swear it wasn't my fault, Facebook has been an unreliable lover as of late. Can't live with it, can't live without it...