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HeatWatch™ 2012
The opposite of Snowpocalypse is happening. HeatWatch™ keeps everyone up to date and safe in these HOT TIMES.
EMERGENCY PLANNING: Spend more time in the office if there is AC there. Go see five movies. Drink water. Have a juice. Eat a spicy taco.
CURRENTLY: 80 degrees.
EMERGENCY PLANNING: Spend more time in the office if there is AC there. Go see five movies. Drink water. Have a juice. Eat a spicy taco.
CURRENTLY: 80 degrees.
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I'm sorry, I'm always going to be that person who complains about the heat.
I grew up here, and it did not used to be this hot! Also, whenever it did get this hot I would freak out and complain.
Heat makes me feel both crazy, and physically ill. A few summers ago I got actual heat stroke, and it fucked me up for days.
booooooo! over 95 is way too hot for my bod!
#rant
I am also in an a/c environment all day.
#stfubecky
I am a frog
I don't love it when it gets over 90, but then I remember November-April and I make myself appreciate the warmth of the sun on my arms and face, I guess. I'm always so wet and cold all the time in those months, and I'm definitely complaining about it by the time March rolls around.
I am trying to be circumspect about the heat and just accept it on its own terms (something I first began practicing while living in an uninsulated, un-airconditioned top-floor apartment in West Hollywood). It is nice to swim, and warm nights are nice, and I am trying to be appreciative. but sometimes I have dreams that it is cold and rainy and when I wake up I am momentarily devastated by the sun blasting in through the windows.
I like to live under a wet little rock
also to the homeless or those who live out of doors!
But...
HEAT!!
Go team lizard.
I wasn't born on the West Coast, but the summer temperatures were very much a factor in my moving here. I can find hot summer heat sort of entertaining when there have been too many grey days, but after a few days of super hot I am done and in the mood to hide indoors. The heat is much worse in a city when you struggle to find shade and the combination of sweat and city grime in your flip-flops gives you blisters.
It's never hot like it is now in Anacortes and I am hanging in the coolest corner of our house. I guess if I wasn't working I could go enjoy this heat at the lake. But the lakes are full of yahoos yelling their dog's name over and over these days.
Anyway. I should befriend someone who has a small house in the woods with few/no neighbours. Or maybe I can become that person. We could drink Arnold Palmers and eat too much ice cream and take naps in hammocks.
(this lady had a total of three vacation days so far this summer, not complaining, just offering up more information about my current state of mind)
She has this look on her face of her brain melting.
I tried to fan her but the fan scared her.
I put ice cubes in her water dish.
I just get overwhelmed by extreme heat, especially if I can't escape it!
Alex you are right, we have always had some hot summer days, but not as many as we do now, IMO. ?
When David gets that glazed heat-confused look in her eyes, I wet a big bath towel with water, wring it out, and just cuddle her in it until she becomes cooled. Like many (but not all) felines, if I put her near water, she believes I am intending to murder her (is she actually a witch, or an alien from M. Night-Shyamalan's "Signs?")
@Marc_Zuckerburg JUST DO IT! FUN MEETINGS!
It's so fucking hot even in our dark little cave house!
http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;ws=31237
Also July was the hottest on record in the lower 4, even though it wasn't super hot here:
http://www.weather.com/news/noaa-report-july-20120808
didnt move here 18 yrs ago because i liked heat
moved here for rain soaked streets
quiet houses, drippy tree branches, warm blankets, a cat and a cup of coffee
not
EEEEEEESH WTF ITS 90 degrees inside the apartment!>!>>!>!>
u can always put a sweater on, but once its hot and yr in yr skivvies and its still hot
there is nothing to be done
fuck heat
Walking outside without having to brace myself for the icy chill that meets me on most days of the year is truly a blessed thing. LOVE THIS HEAT!
But alas, I choose to live in Oregon. I bring it on myself.
It was 91 degrees today. We went to the zoo. There were like 9 otters just laying there in a pile.
A weird recent development in my life is that it hasn't been so hard to get up in the morning and I really enjoy flopping around and making peppermint tea in this nice crisp breeze. All our windows are still open and I am like, yeah cold air, hit me!
kdawg:
Our Arnold Palmers are naturally decaffeinated! I never buy black tea and in the fog of this heat the only box my hands landed on was decaffeinated English breakfast tea. So I won't get any of my usual caffeine jitters. Arnld Palms are really fun to share.
Today I am dealing with flurries of panicked advising emails about how all these profs have advisees even though they were told earlier that they didn't. Everyone freaking out. I know I'm gonna get suckered into something way over my head/beyond my pay grade but oh well
Also eating a bagel
Also trying to reorganize my article
In the coffee shop with the screaming toddlers; the tables full of pregnant non-working mothers of toddlers talking to each other complacently of strollers and preschools and verbal acuities. Something about it makes my skin crawl but the white noise of their offspring helps me focus for reasons I can't explain.
Calvin is a better baby than every baby here! Calvin is the best baby, I think. Why is he so much better than other babies?? I like talking to him; these other babies suck
But here is something important a dear friend pointed out: You don't have to be that way. It's a choice. You don't have to be a mom who only hang with other moms. You don't have to talk to your child the same way annoying ladies do.
It's like going to the mall and hearing women talk about cute shoes. That's not you. You still like shoes, you still wear them, but you've got other shit going on.
cute shoes: it's so funny when you're hanging out with a friend who is also a girl and she is taking things so for granted about how you feel about your body or your life and shoes or whatever. Like no, actually, shopping for cute shoes is not something that calls to me, even though I have a vagina
SUMMERTIME FOG AND THE SMELL OF RAIN OF ASPHALT
COFFEE AT 1:30 Out on the porch with the re-heated left overs from montage
#trill #swag
Anyway, today was weird, right? Heat-wise. Cool and clammy all morning, then bam! sunny with a touch of humidity. It was tough to be right in the sun at Trek in the Park- felt like somebody was holding a magnifying glass above us.
I bought a new dying summer/early autumn shirt for $1.99 to celebrate.