Just Kristin

I know that I have pre­vi­ously touched upon my issues with change, espe­cially change that I didn’t see com­ing. Change I con­trol? Fine. I could move any­where in the world, as long as I was part of the decision-making process tak­ing me there. Change I can at least see com­ing? Fine. Lay­offs are a piece of cake, because all one need do to avoid being blind­sided is pay atten­tion. (My most recent lay­off occurred between my two inter­views for the Zoo!) Change that takes me by sur­prise, how­ever, can knock me right on my butt. Even small things like hav­ing to rush or wait or make a sud­den deci­sion are enough to get all my mon­keys scream­ing at once.

It is a won­der, then, that I pre­fer change­able weather. We have had quite a bit of rain in San Diego over the last week or so, and it has actu­ally been as close to WI weather as I have seen since I’ve lived here: the rain is inter­mit­tent, with patches of sun­shine between, and there has been thun­der and light­ning and floods, and — rather freak­ishly — a tor­nado warn­ing. There are even patches of green sprout­ing here and there! Still, it is South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, after all, and these bits of flux were anchored in the stag­nant gray of the storm(s) — tiny devi­a­tions from the rain-norm, much in the same way that the occa­sional Santa Ana serves as enough of a depar­ture from the sun-norm to give our mete­o­rol­o­gists some­thing to say other than “another per­fect day, sunny and warm with low clouds in the morn­ing which should burn off by 10.” There is a rea­son (other than mos­qui­toes) that I never visit my WI fam­ily in the summer.

Per­haps this long­ing for change­able weather is what makes me so fond of things like this. I don’t think I have a gad­get that does not have a “foul” weather sim­u­la­tor of some kind on it. I have been stand­ing in the rain lately instead of lis­ten­ing to mp3s of it, tho. Lucky me!