I love a rainy night

It's raining cats and dogs out there - it's running down the streets in rivers, soaking your hair even with an umbrella. I saw some students camped out on the main lawn of the campus with tents. None of them seemed to be in the tents, though, most were standing next to them holding umbrellas. A student with a bandana in her hair was videotaping the event for posterity, or the news, while two other students held up umbrellas over her camera.

It reminded me of the night our campus Habitat for Humanity group slept outside in cardboard boxes to raise awareness for sub-standard housing. We got all these cardboard boxes, and slept out near the fountain in the middle of campus. I had a major music history test the next day, and I was trying to study by flashlight, though it wasn't terribly effective. At around 2 am I gave up and tried to sleep. However, at 3 am, it started raining REALLY hard. Within minutes, our refrigerator boxes soaked through and collapsed on us, and we had to go back to our dorms.

Just a random memory. I wish I would have been active in more political causes in college, even though Habitat for Humanity was a great cause. I'm starting to see how advocating for the poor through politics can be as helpful as helping them build their house. I hope these kids, whatever the cause was that moved them to sleep out in the rain, don't become corporate slaves like the rest of us.