A Treatise on the Existence of the Best Night Ever

Yes, it does in fact exist. Furthermore, it was last night! (No, this doesn't have anything to do with dirty things, you perverts. Honestly.)

Anyway, it started thusly: Elliott and I walked around, visited the store, all that fun stuff, me with my top hat (wonderful protection against the rain, you know) and then a sudden gust of rain blew it off my head. I caught it, but I had this wonderful sense of accomplishment...it's not every man that has the opportunity to have a top hat blown off his head by the wind! I don't know. It was just cool for me.

Secondly, we went down to the docks to watch the water and be a part of the weather (rain and wind = win) and then from the area of Downtown Seattle we saw green lighting! :O Around here one is hard pressed to find a real manly lightning storm, so this was a very exciting development. Night going very well so far.

THEN we got back to the dorm, visited with our friends from third floor, and by this time it had stopped raining. However, the lightning suddenly started right above us so we all simultaneously jumped and ran downstairs and out into the courtyard to watch it. A couple more people from the west wing came too. There we were, staring at the electrostatic discharges, and then I think "...why does it sound like it's raining?" and all of a sudden this DELUGE of hail just ROCKETS down onto us! I personally took the masculine route and let off a little scream and ran to the door (I was in a tee shirt and it kind of hurt. That's my story.) while Elliott and Co. stayed behind and danced around a bit. At this point about half of the dorm ran out to see what kind of freak of meteorology had occurred, and we were all having a good time. Eventually it stopped and we all went inside to cultivate our pneumonia, but I swear that was the best night I have ever had, at least while I've been here. All of the main Awesome Weather Patterns all rolled into one cataclysmic explosion of air pressure and polarized clouds. Much fun.

Right. I'm off to trek across campus (in yet another lightning storm!) to get food because the food place near my dorm isn't serving anything good tonight. More weather for me! :D