I gladly join you in your impotent rage! We should throw an impotent rage party -- just think of all the frustrated young twenty-somethings who would show up, expensive test prep books in hand to burn on the bonfire. Good times!

how hard it is or isn't raining right now; whether or not it will rain; and if the hurricane is or is not going to come.

Hurricanes! I forgot that in the south you guys have the mother of all weather-related-conversation-topics. And that's something that can have lasting, devastating effects on your life! Our boring convos about the snow usually revolve around whether the highways will be backed up and, if so, how badly.