Spent the day sitting in the gazebo with my feet up reading Alice Sebold’s Lucky while it poured all around me. I watch the rain spit circles in the pool and the glossy spots of water inch closer on the deck. I love sitting outside in the rain on a hot day.

At one point I heard a crunching sound and turned around to find a deer about 25 feet away eating crab apples off the ground.

I stayed in my solitary world, only talking to B for a few minutes in the morning, until my parents came home from Canada around 7.

It was the perfect way to spend a day off.