It is raining today. Hard. Violent summer thunderstorms electrify the air. Instead of cleaning the air, all the rain has made it the whole city steamy and sticky. Maybe the dark pavement is cooking the water, maybe it is just a humid August day. But because the clean air smell is not there, it feels like a waste for a rain storm.
Last week was miserable. It was was hot and humid, the first official heat wave of the summer. Stupidly, I had sold my air conditioner on Craigslist. I had not used it in 4 years and I thought I would have no use for it now. And any other time that would have been a sound plan. I get most of my air conditioning needs during the day at work and at night I never get hot. Unfortunately, last week I came down with a case of strep throat, which lead into an ear infection. For much of the week during our first heat wave, I lay on my bed to hot and sticky to move. It was hard to distinguish what part was fever related and what was heat related.
Signs of my impending illness should have been obvious. I had spent the week before completely irritated with the world. My posting from last week was going to be a long rant about lazy people, incompetent people, people in general, and non people things. What I had felt was actually more than irritation, it was anger. When I talked to the administrative assistant in the Office of Financial Services, I could feel my carotid arteries tighten and pulsate. My fists clenched when I realized that the assistant had paperwork from 4 months ago that she had not processed, but had constantly assured us had been completed. There were more incidents like that and I was amazed how I did not punch someone. Beer tempered my mood, but only slightly.
Today, I look at the people on the T platform with there umbrellas. Weather.com says tomorrow is going to be warm and humid again. I guess after any kind of thunderstorm happens you kind of want a dramatic difference in the climate, but more often than not things just slowly return to normal.
(Went to Maine for the weekend. Special joint posting with the Hose to come....)
4 comments:
That's sad about your air conditioner. I'm trying to decide whether to buy one or not when I move. I've been spoiled with central air, and the three times I've been in the apartment, it was really hot and I was sweaty. It's on the second floor, so the heat hangs out. Maybe I'll just wait and see how it goes, and open the windows to save money on both electricity and the thing itself.
Oh- sorry. It's also sad that you were sick. It seems like you get sick a lot. Hopefully all that lobster made you better!
also, xtian is extremely lazy
Yeah, SERIOUSLY. He always makes me do all the work.
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