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One minute it's hot and humid. Ten minutes later you step outside and it feels like someone has laid a hot, wet blanket across your chest. Then the lightning comes. From every corner of the sky. Every 15 seconds. No thunder. Then the wind, strong and blustery. Finally, the rain. And MAN it comes down! In sheets, cats and dogs, sideways... all the metaphors that try to explain rain that makes umbrellas completely useless! The drops are so huge that when they hit the ground they splash back up as high as your waist. The drops are so huge that one drop on your head soaks your hair completely, and runs down your face and into your cleavage! Where I'm from.... it doesn't rain past May!

This weekend I got to see George Clinton play in little old Kentucky! It was Louisville's 4th of July festival, and I swear, I am so taken with this little city. They find sponsors to host these free concerts at the waterfront--right on the Ohio river. For Derby week the B-52's were here, and there's been music pretty much every weekend since then. It's all free, and parking is incredibly easy. Beers are under $5, and you don't even have to have a wristband or wait in ungodly lines. It's unbelievably easy to have fun here! Anyhoo, George Clinton played for hours on Friday, and didn't stop when the rain started pouring down. They didn't stop when the fireworks started, and they didn't even stop when the fireworks ended and the city blasted canned patriotic music trying to drown out the band and get the crowd to leave. It was great!

Seems like I have been getting this more and more lately, and I don't quite know how to take it! I mean, I know it's a compliment...but it also means that I am older than I look, which means that I look young but I am ....old? Or something. I don't know. When I hear it I cringe.

This weekend we had our first break from nursing school. It was a whole 3 days long, but it was really, really nice. I got to escape to Cumberland Lake in the southern part of Kentucky, and got in some boating, some drinking and some guns. Lake Cumberland just happens to be THE houseboat capital of the U.S.! Some of these things are ridiculously obscene. They've got swirly slides coming off all which ways, some are 3 stories tall, with 10,000 square feet, and get 3/4 miles to the gallon. Rad. We didn't have a houseboat, but I was lucky enough to go with some friends that had 2 motor boats and could get us to the little inlets and creeks all over the lake. There was fantastic swimming, and I am 10 shades darker even though I wore 50SPF the whole time, AND a hat. That's a result of kentucky summer + portland winter. EEghh. Anyhoo, friends brought guns. I mean, that's the thing you do in Kentucky. So I got to handle them for the first time-- I practiced with a bbgun, and a...

So it's just 8 weeks into school, and my bill is already at $20,000! Not a problem, I know I have to repay this whether I finish or NOT!!!!