Good morning Theodosia. Is it still soggy and flooded in your area?

We had big storms yesterday, but mostly we're happy to have the fires put out. It has been horribly dry the last few months. Yay rain! At Bobby's baseball game Friday night everyone at the game was annoyed to find their cars covered with fine ash from fires burning maybe 30 miles away. Yuck. I haven't watched the news yet. Hopefully the lightning with the storm didn't start new fires.

Crime makes you stupid: [link]

In a previous break-in, the police said, the two men cut a hole in the roof at the Independence Community Bank in Jackson Heights, but missed the vault, reaching the employees' kitchen instead.

This try seemed to be going better, at least at first. Early yesterday, the police say, the two men cut through the roof and then through eight feet of beams and wooden layers to reach the vault of the bank, on Roosevelt Avenue near 82nd Street. But their luck did not hold.

They had cut three sides of a square on the steel ceiling of the vault when they realized that the police had arrived — alerted by a motion-detection system the bank installed after the previous attempt, which a bank employee said was in February.

Hi Laura! I just checked down in the basement, and it was acceptable -- there are a few small pools of damp, but Actual Dry Concrete overall. But it's still coming down intermittently, and the forecast is that flood-prone areas around here are expected to flood again.

My roommate went walking around the neighborhood yesterday, and saw that several neighboring houses were pumping out their basements, so it isn't just me being unlucky....

Best news: we're supposed to get some sunshine tomorrow.

Is the day almost over?

GA:

I felt so bad for Burke, but I couldn't quite get where Christina was at.

Bailey was in fine form, especially with the prom speech.

I may be the only person on the planet who feels this way, but I've been so over Denny for weeks now.

Slow-mo sex was ick for me.

I don't understand why men fall in love with Meredith. She's one of those girls that's not especially gorgeous or smart or anything that all the guys fawn over and all the girls are like, "Seriously?"

I hated where it ended, because it was the stereotypical way to end, but in retrospect, could it end any other way?

I thought Callie seemed slightly less crazy, this week, but her dress was not flattering at all. I liked Chrsitina's dress, though.

I also felt for Addison, because you could see that she could see McDreamy moving further away from her, but she was still trying. I don't know if it's the writing or her performance, but it's probably not good when the person meant to be the antagonist is more sympathetic than the main character.

Still skipping the whitefont.

Megan, happy birthday! I've been to Excalibur. It's a cool store. I got a rocking knife ther, which sadly I no longer have.

Sue -- I am so with you on the ick for the sex. Plus, it made me angry -- well neither Meredith nor Addision deserve the way that Derek has treated them. Plus, I am sad for Finn. I really thought that Christina's inability to express empathy was going to lose Burke for her. And yeah, if Denny had not proposed to Izzy and not gone along with the craziness I would have liked him SO MUCH BETTER.

I just gotta make it through the next three hours of work - then I leave to catch a train to the F2F.

Half-days usually seem less than half a day long, so hopefully I won't chew my leg off first....

Megan, you were foiled by Bill 101, here's the Excalibor site: [link]

Warning there's sound on the first page.

I am totally with you on every GA point, Sue.

It's very funny to skip the whitefont. Espacially Cass' post which has just the one single non-white word.

Megan, yay for a great birthday!

Jesse! It's the first day of your non-grad-school-life!