Netnet Camomot RAINY days and Mondays always get me... down? Hmmm. Nope. Not if that "me" can work at home and have no appointments outside of that home on a rainy Monday. It has been raining cats and dogs and even cows and carabaos for several days now, thanks to Pinas's wet season. Our country has only two seasons: wet and dry. And please don't confuse the first one with someone's hot season. Or the last one with someone's menopausal season. Hehe. Oops, calling MTRCB... The grass is green again, thanks to the rain. A green mind, however, is always on, no matter what the season is, even if the country that mind is in, has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. In Pinas, when we say, Four Seasons, we mean the drink that has everything in it, best gulped down amidst the summer heat aka the dry season which if translated in a green mind could refer to a ho-hum lovelife that's as dry as the Sahara. A rainy day always tempts one to stay in bed, with or without yummy company, until the tummy growls for a meal which he may have in bed anyway, as in breakfast in bed, lunch in bed, dinner in bed, even merienda and midnight snacks in bed. Please don't wait for ants to crawl onto that bed, to feast on leftovers he has forgotten to devour. Another school year has begun along with the rainy season. For a while there, we thought school would open in August or September, to help students escape from the obstacle course that typhoons and floods require. But school opens in June for now as students look forward to no-school days, thanks to the rain. A beauty contest candidate was asked a question about the weather and her reply zoomed in on El Niño morphing to La Niña, probably to remind us, ordinary mortals, that what goes up must come down. And it's definitely coming down now in the form of daily rainy weather predictions that don't give us the chance to ponder on, Umbrella or no umbrella? It's umbrella, daily, hidden in the tote bag that's already heavy with things we may also need in dealing with the rain: raincoat, hooded sweater, hooded jacket, shawl, scarf, surf, banca, boat, snorkel... To the green mind who's stuck with the word "raincoat," that's really a raincoat for the rain. Mornings are usually sunny but cool, the clock hits 12 noon and that's when the room begs for an air conditioner. The rain arrives in the afternoon, not in time for siesta which is best taken right after lunch and before returning to work, but after siesta time when you're already back at the office, or is about to leave that office after work. Rain is bad when you're not home, huh? But it's good when you're home, and sipping hot choco while munching on a strawberry jam-cheese sandwich, unless flash floods are about to sweep that house off its roots. Then, you won't have time to savor that choco drink and sandwich anymore. La Niña is expected to bring so much rain, but I doubt if it will make us look forward to El Niño. If only we can have spring and autumn, too, in Pinas, an in-between weather for cherry blossoms and falling leaves. But it's dry or wet in Pinas, no in-betweens. The only in-between you can have is the palaman that you prefer in between two slices of bread, the sandwich for your rainy afternoon.