To the left is a photo of me trying not to expire as I fry in the California sun. Luckily, I was able to escape to the (far cooler) beach on this day, but normally I don't have the time to do so. Yesterday it was even too hot to type an entry into this blog!I hate...
HOT weather. You know that kind of hot that means that even laying down doing nothing, you're sweating? Yeah, YUCK! I hate this kind of sweating not only because when it's that particular brand of hot I'm never wearing the proper sweat friendly attire, but also because it's too hot to even shower without becoming sweaty again not five minutes after you towel off. Most people would say, what's the big deal, it's the 21st century, turn on the damn air conditioning! Well, being a resident of the beautiful northern California area in which I reside, air conditioning seems to be reserved for movie theaters and retail stores, because few people have central air conditioning equipped homes. Here, we instead rely on the natural air conditioning more commonly known as fog, which I swear was much more effective until global warming showed up and turned Marin County's summer season into a giant festival of HOT. Additionally, I'm not made for the heat. I am decidedly a mix of all things European and white and thus tolerance for hot weather just isn't in my blood. I recently went camping with my boyfriend's family at a place that was so hot that I at one point swore that I was actually going to die. I sat down in a chair, and not wanting to make a big fuss in front of the family, decided that I would die quietly and hoped that someone would revive me in someplace air conditioned before it was too late. Well, I didn't die and no one had to revive me, but I think it's safe to say that camping in HOT weather is not an adventure worth repeating. Why can't someone invent an invisible air conditioning body suit? Honestly, is portable air conditioning too much to ask when my iPod pays my bills for me?
at the same time, however....
I love....
Swimming. There is nothing like swimming when the weather is crazy hot. Whether it's the pool, the ocean, a lake, a stream, whatever, there is nothing like dunking into a great big bucket of cool when the temperatures soar. In fact, many natural bodies of water require that it be extra specially hot just for you to consider getting in. Have you ever been in the Pacific Ocean round about San Francisco? It's cold enough to freeze your nipples clean off and often necessitates becoming numb to the crippling cold before you can fully get in. Even if it's not hot where you live right now, just imagine it...you're hot and sticky with the day's grime and the force of the heat all around you, but manage to squirm into a swimsuit and sit still long enough to let the sunscreen dry on your nose. The pool awaits like a shimmering oasis of relief, and as you plunge into the deep end and water rushes past your ears and shoots tiny bubbles over your scalp, that's all you can feel: relief. The hot day is suddenly but a distant memory as water shimmies down your spine and threatens the barrier of your bathing suit. You hover momentarily in the weightless world of aqua bliss before kicking to the surface and breaking into the sunlight that now glints off your face with abandon. Ahhhh...there's nothing like swimming on a hot day....
HOT weather. You know that kind of hot that means that even laying down doing nothing, you're sweating? Yeah, YUCK! I hate this kind of sweating not only because when it's that particular brand of hot I'm never wearing the proper sweat friendly attire, but also because it's too hot to even shower without becoming sweaty again not five minutes after you towel off. Most people would say, what's the big deal, it's the 21st century, turn on the damn air conditioning! Well, being a resident of the beautiful northern California area in which I reside, air conditioning seems to be reserved for movie theaters and retail stores, because few people have central air conditioning equipped homes. Here, we instead rely on the natural air conditioning more commonly known as fog, which I swear was much more effective until global warming showed up and turned Marin County's summer season into a giant festival of HOT. Additionally, I'm not made for the heat. I am decidedly a mix of all things European and white and thus tolerance for hot weather just isn't in my blood. I recently went camping with my boyfriend's family at a place that was so hot that I at one point swore that I was actually going to die. I sat down in a chair, and not wanting to make a big fuss in front of the family, decided that I would die quietly and hoped that someone would revive me in someplace air conditioned before it was too late. Well, I didn't die and no one had to revive me, but I think it's safe to say that camping in HOT weather is not an adventure worth repeating. Why can't someone invent an invisible air conditioning body suit? Honestly, is portable air conditioning too much to ask when my iPod pays my bills for me?
at the same time, however....
I love....
Swimming. There is nothing like swimming when the weather is crazy hot. Whether it's the pool, the ocean, a lake, a stream, whatever, there is nothing like dunking into a great big bucket of cool when the temperatures soar. In fact, many natural bodies of water require that it be extra specially hot just for you to consider getting in. Have you ever been in the Pacific Ocean round about San Francisco? It's cold enough to freeze your nipples clean off and often necessitates becoming numb to the crippling cold before you can fully get in. Even if it's not hot where you live right now, just imagine it...you're hot and sticky with the day's grime and the force of the heat all around you, but manage to squirm into a swimsuit and sit still long enough to let the sunscreen dry on your nose. The pool awaits like a shimmering oasis of relief, and as you plunge into the deep end and water rushes past your ears and shoots tiny bubbles over your scalp, that's all you can feel: relief. The hot day is suddenly but a distant memory as water shimmies down your spine and threatens the barrier of your bathing suit. You hover momentarily in the weightless world of aqua bliss before kicking to the surface and breaking into the sunlight that now glints off your face with abandon. Ahhhh...there's nothing like swimming on a hot day....
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