It's only been a few days into spring and it already feels like summer here. I went outside yesterday and after about ten minutes I was sweating so profusely that I had to come inside, shower, and change. The bright side of all this is that, hey, it's not so cold anymore that I feel my limbs and extremities are about to fall off.
The thing that I don't really like about hot weather is that I like to wear jeans and slacks all year around, despite my owning about five pairs of short [two of which are shamefully short and do not get worn in public]. I like wearing flip flops year round, so footwear isn't a problem for me in the warmer months. But pants? In spring? When it's currently 70 degrees and the sun hasn't even risen yet? Pants are a problem.
Denim that feels threadbare and breezy in the dead of winter suddenly becomes as heavy as a bolt of cloth and twice as hot as a kiln in the not-so-dry heat. Shirts, too, are a bit problematic as it seems that I cannot find that magical fabric that is light enough to not induce sweat when out in the heat, but not see through or ugly. Such is life.
Before I go, WRITING UPDATE: I mentioned a couple posts ago about this story I'm working. That story has since been finished. Or, rather, that version. It had and still has alternating points of view and while I'm not one of this people who "hears" my characters' voices or dreams about them, having to keep them all straight was a pain, so I'm doing a rewrite.
I know that the previous statement makes it appear as though doing a rewrite is some sort of pleasure comparatively speaking, but it will give me a chance to re-experience the story in a different and hopefully correct manner. And, maybe, I will finish it before I get too sick of it.
Showing posts with label Why Summer Should Go Away. Show all posts
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I know I'm a little late on this, but September 14th? September 14th? I have to wait until mid September in order to get Glee: Volume 2, Road To Regionals!? It is a travesty.
The only consolation is that ABC Family is showing Boy Meets World in the morning and Fox is supposedly showing re-runs all summer. I have yet to catch one of these alleged re-runs, but that is mainly a result of my failing and poor schedules.
But, yeah. I finally decided to look it up on Amazon and I'm half tempted to pre-order it and half tempted to wait until more people pre-order it because I think that'll make the price go down.
Anyway.
Summer has officially started which means that the temperatures are rising. The heat index is just baffling. Why is the world allowed to get this hot? It's unbearable and I stay inside most of the time. So now, in addition to autumn, Glee is a reason for summer to just end right now.
Meanwhile, maybe that oil spill will be taken care of by summer's end. On the news right now they're talking about the effect this is having on the Vietnamese-American community in the gulf, which is apparently a mainly fishing/shrimping/etc employed community. Also, the ticker says that Senator Byrd died. He was ninety-two. The ticker says that the cause of death is not yet know. I say that, hello, he was ninety-two. The average US life expectancy is seventy-six.
But yeah, back to that oil spill thing.
Setting aside that it was ridiculous that it even happened, there's all these families that no longer have any work because of it. And, you know, this probably isn't helping the unemployment rate any, but it does shine some light on human nature over all.
Most everybody gets angry when things like that happen, which they rightfully should, but then the interesting thing is what they choose to do afterward. Some people get really hopeless and give up, but then other people still have a peppy, hopeful attitude in spite of it all. Such attitudes are not only inspiring, but necessary.
And they're not just necessary in particularly trying times, but at all times. The peppy part can go, but the hopeful part must stay. Because, really, if no one has any hope in anything then they aren't getting anywhere.
Anyway, that's the end of me and the sappy stuff. I've got another episode of Boy Meets World to watch ["Everybody Loves Stuart" for anyone whose interested] along with breakfast and a long day of writing ahead of me if I don't fall asleep first.
The only consolation is that ABC Family is showing Boy Meets World in the morning and Fox is supposedly showing re-runs all summer. I have yet to catch one of these alleged re-runs, but that is mainly a result of my failing and poor schedules.
But, yeah. I finally decided to look it up on Amazon and I'm half tempted to pre-order it and half tempted to wait until more people pre-order it because I think that'll make the price go down.
Anyway.
Summer has officially started which means that the temperatures are rising. The heat index is just baffling. Why is the world allowed to get this hot? It's unbearable and I stay inside most of the time. So now, in addition to autumn, Glee is a reason for summer to just end right now.
Meanwhile, maybe that oil spill will be taken care of by summer's end. On the news right now they're talking about the effect this is having on the Vietnamese-American community in the gulf, which is apparently a mainly fishing/shrimping/etc employed community. Also, the ticker says that Senator Byrd died. He was ninety-two. The ticker says that the cause of death is not yet know. I say that, hello, he was ninety-two. The average US life expectancy is seventy-six.
But yeah, back to that oil spill thing.
Setting aside that it was ridiculous that it even happened, there's all these families that no longer have any work because of it. And, you know, this probably isn't helping the unemployment rate any, but it does shine some light on human nature over all.
Most everybody gets angry when things like that happen, which they rightfully should, but then the interesting thing is what they choose to do afterward. Some people get really hopeless and give up, but then other people still have a peppy, hopeful attitude in spite of it all. Such attitudes are not only inspiring, but necessary.
And they're not just necessary in particularly trying times, but at all times. The peppy part can go, but the hopeful part must stay. Because, really, if no one has any hope in anything then they aren't getting anywhere.
Anyway, that's the end of me and the sappy stuff. I've got another episode of Boy Meets World to watch ["Everybody Loves Stuart" for anyone whose interested] along with breakfast and a long day of writing ahead of me if I don't fall asleep first.
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