Pelted.

I'm sitting in my room right now, looking out at the ocean as the rain pelts the coast. It hasn't stopped all day. It's very dark and the wind is incredibly strong. The palm trees are bending so far that it looks like they are going to snap. There are moments where it lets up a bit, but within a few minutes it's back to full force.

I've spent most of the day reading, catching up on emails, planning my next few trips and listening to music. Oh, I also created a Monsoon Mix. The mix relies heavily on a lot of songs from the Notre Dame era. The rainy weather here is very reminiscent of what I used to walk through to get to Lula's, a coffee shop in South Bend. (...rain, snow, shine...I loved that place. There was nothing like studying while huddled in the blue corner, sipping a huge mug of mocha.) Here it is:

Round Here - Counting Crows (From "Across A Live Wire")
Wanna Be - Nine Days
Lose You - Pete Yorn
Mona Lisa - Guster
She Says - Howie Day (From "Australia")
Bitter - Nine Days
The Path Of Thorns (Terms) - Sarah McLachlan
Only Dreaming - K's Choice
Fever Dream - Iron & Wine
Emergency Trap - Mogwai
When The Day Goes Down - Eurythmics
If I Fall - Aqualung

This week was a long one (6 days of work), so it's really nice to just kick-back today. I'm thinking about braving the weather to go to Mocha, a coffee shop in town. I might even break my coffee fast (!)

Last night I had dinner at Anish and Apoovra's to watch the soccer match. Another friend from work, Aby, came too. We arrived about 7pm, had a few drinks, some light appetizers, and chatted about this and that. A really lovely evening. At about 11:30, I was getting really tired and was about ready to leave when Anish came out of the kitchen with huge plates of food and said, "Dinner time!"

It was delicious.