I did something foolishly vain today: I wore a black jacket to work. More accurately, I spent ten minutes deciding what to wear, and once I had my heart set on this jacket (in my own defence, it was storming madly when I got out of the shower), it was a matter of coordinating everything else with it --- a not-that-straightforward process that I'm too embarrassed to recount here.

Of course, now that I've worn the jacket to work, the rain's halted --- whereas it pelted continuously every day but Saturday last week --- and the sun has come out. Bah.