If there are aliens flying overhead, looking for an overactive brain to experiment on...I'm about to get abducted. This is the type of crazy thought that occurred to me as I lay awake at 2am. I may have even listened out for sounds of UFOs. I'm not sure what they would sound like, but I imagine it's some sort of whirling mechanical noise, right? It would be subtle...Because if aliens really were inexplicably hovering over my house they would probably try to be covert about it

It's raining here in San Diego. Rain is so rare here that when it happens people sort of don't know what to do with themselves. The rain becomes the topic of conversation everywhere you go. At the grocery store, in line at the bank, at the post office; everyone is talking about the rain. "Did you see what's going on out there?" "Yeah, there's this strange liquid oozing from the clouds." The trickle of water is slow and hardly anything worth noticing, but the local news channe