Strongly Worded

Some Upbeat Chatter to Offset Existential Questioning

Today it was 92 degrees, and it's supposed to be similarly hot tomorrow. This fills me with joy. I love the heat. I'm like an iguana. Naturally cold-blooded (and constantly freezing), I am blissful when I can bask and soak up sun and warmth. This rocks especially right now, because it's still early in the season, and arctic air-conditioning is not yet blasting everywhere. I remain confounded about the fact that in the wintertime, people heat their surroundings to around 71 degrees. Yet in summer, it is deemed acceptable to chill stores and offices and homes to around 60 degrees, even though everyone is wearing much less clothing.

I am also chuffed because my friends Robyn, Melinda, and K. will be convening in New Orleans in July, for our second trans-national reunion. The four of us all used to live within the same area code, but then Robyn moved to suburbia, Melinda got all midwestern on us, and K. had the nerve to apply her brilliant educational psychologist training to the distressed school districts of Louisiana. But whatever. This is going to be awesome. Hopefully at least as awesome as our first reunion. Apparently it will be infernally hot, but I will be consuming snow balls, which are like Sno-cones but better.

But wait! There's even more good news! A while back, I took out a zillion books from the library (because, by having many options, I don't feel obligated to finish books if I am not feeling them), and three of them disappeared under the seat of my car, and thus I not only never read them (or even remembered I'd taken them out), but never returned them. After many weeks, I got a scary overdue notice from the library. I immediately dropped off the books, but did not inquire about the fine. Today I drove over there and braced myself and expected to shell out around $50. Which I kept reminding myself is still way cheaper than buying books, and also there are worse things than contributing money to the public library, right? And guess what? My fine was only $3!

And finally: I discovered an Ann Taylor outlet nearby, and I bought several cool shirts that don't make me look pregnant and were also affordable.

Yay!

Posted by Dori at 9:17 PM