Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away

I'm so thankful that it has rained here twice in the last week. We are in a pretty severe drought situation, about 14 inches under the normal rainfall for all of last year. It was the 5th driest year on record at DFW. Last Sunday I got about an inch of rain in my backyard, and today ought to be pretty close to that (update: 1.9 inches!). It only rained once here in November and once in December, and both of those were less than half an inch. When I was running on Friday, I saw one of the houses in the neighborhood had run a hose to a sprinkler that was sitting on their roof. At first I thought that was overkill, but the more I thought about it I realized that there is no reason the field behind my street couldn't catch on fire. That would be bad. I love waking up to rain in the morning, which was the case today.

I got my application for grad school mailed in. I struggled a little with the essay, and I didn't think it was all that good, but I'm not too worried about it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking it will be more important that they get the money I will be paying them. Pftz.

I think I have my running groove back. The last two weeks I have been able to do my 5 miles without stopping. Woo-hoo!