First Day of Summer

Denver is right on time with the summer heat. In fact, it came on so quickly, we haven't had the chance to install our window air conditioner. Let me tell you that it is possibly the stupidest thing to procrastinate doing. You put off mopping the floor, it gets a little grungy. You put off installing your air conditioner, you pay for it every second you're lying there wide awake at 3 am because it is 80-degrees and your pillowtop mattress is baking your back while your feather pillows are cooking your head and the fan is basically keeping the hot air circulating like you're in a lovely convection oven. In fact, you are baking some cookies right over there on your nightstand because you MAY AS WELL.

It is too hot for the cats. While Pinky deals with this by staying perfectly still on the linoleum in the kitchen for the entire night, Max deals with this like a Ft. Lauderdale retiree, by constantly complaining about it. He likes to tell me how hot it is about seven times a night, mostly by jumping on my stomach and meowing loudly like, "LIZ, OMG DID YOU NOTICE IT IS HOT! WHAT IS THAT ABOUT?" He is also alarmed/excited about the bedroom window being open and likes to go sit in the sill, and then run over and tell me about it like, "LIZ, OMG DID YOU SEE THE WINDOW IS OPEN? I CAN SEE STUFF AND HEAR STUFF AND THE WINDOW IS OPEN! I'M GOING TO GO SIT IN IT AGAIN!"

Even though it is sweltering here, in my heart of hearts I know it is 100% better than anything going on with humidity mixed in. I am excited I'll be in New York in a week and a half, but I am trying not to remember how seriously awful the humidity makes the weather. I am pretending it will be a lovely week in the low 70s with no moisture in the air and a nice breeze going. That's feasible, right? Right??

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Mom talking to my cousin, who is applying to colleges, about CU:

"I think with a school like CU you have to find a clique to be in. My niece went there. I think during her first year she was in the drinking clique."