on the train on the way home meredith and chelsea and i crammed three of us and all our luggage into one set of two seats. after meredith had gotten off i was sitting there and listening to 'under pressure' and trying to figure out which instrument i want to play this summer, and as i was doing this i was idly staring out the window and i realized that i had been staring straight into one of the most gorgeous rainbows ever. so i told chelsea to look at it and she did and it was so pretty and then she had to get off but as she was walking away i looked back ou the window and the rainow had become almost a full arc, with a second faint rainbow outside it. i yelled 'chelsea! look at the rainbow. it's gotten bigger.' and everyone else heard and suddenly everyone in the car was leaning up against the windows looking out at it. all around me spontaneous conversations broke out between random strangers. 'look at that!' 'it's beautiful.' 'oh look, it's a double.' 'i've never seen that before...' it was so wonderful. i watched ther ainbow from santa clara to somewhere after tamien, when the last vestiges of it finally dissappeared. the guy in the seat behind me said 'the rainbow's gone' and i said 'yeah, i'd noticed. 'it was there for a long time.' 'yeah.' it was one of those days that really made me wish i'd been carrying a camera.