Rain, Hail or Shine?

Surely one must have absolutely nothing else to talk about if they're mentioning the weather as the blog topic of the day, but honestly, I'm not that completely boring.

(It's either the weather, or my whinging about the second head cold I am experiencing of 2008, because ha! I am sick! Again! Curses to my half-arsed immune system.)

One thing that's incredible about living in London, is how quickly the weather changes.

Even when nothing noteable happens involving the weather and it's just a regular winter morning, the clouds are generally racing across the sky at immense speeds - I've done a lot of sky gazing in my days, and never have I seen a cloud move so quickly.

As we reside in a ground floor flat in our apartment complex, our blinds are closed alot due to being at street level. This means that of a morning, it's pitch black indoors. Being that I am absolutely not a morning person, I generally stumble about getting ready and disappear out the door without peering outside the window, meaning that the weather conditions outside are generally a surprise. (Not smart considering I live in a country where it's raining every time you look outside, but I'm still adjusting.)

This morning on the light rail on my way to work, I observed the most beautiful sunrise across the city. For some reason, even though I've been getting up and leaving early every day, this is the first one I remember seeing. The day dawned bright and beautiful, nippy but without a cloud in the sky. Fast forward to an hour later, and it was overcast and grey. Back and forth it went, with a light drizzle of rain followed by sunshine.

Waiting for the bus in the afternoon, I found myself staring at the sky once again.

The clouds were back and this time, they were scary looking clouds. Ten minutes later, we were in the midst of a huge thunderstorm, complete with hail stones and lightening flashes that lit up the sky. Half an hour later, after emerging from the tube? Sunshine on one side of the train tracks, threatening storm clouds on the other.

The weather here is crazy, and everchanging. But you know what? I'm getting rather fond of it. In fact, it reminds me of myself right now; constantly moving, jumping from class to class, chopping, changing and fumbling my way around this whole experience.