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Hello from one of the crazy corners of the earth again.
So today: nonsense. I had to go get tarps and shit to lock down things in my yard bc of something else I will mention in a moment. While out I was complemented on my shoes (they have a bicycle motif, this is them if you want a pair: http://www.alegriashoeshop.com/Alegria-Paloma-PRO-Tour-p/pal-221.htm -- I have them bc I can wear them to work) which always makes me happy since I'm a bit particular about shoes. Then on my next stop I had a whole weird situation where a kid who was maybe 19 hit on me in a very elaborate and clear way. I express this in those words because I tend to be very bad at knowing when men are into me and not just being creepy. I sent the kid on his way in a polite fashion and shook my head and did my thing. (He invited me to a Halloween party. WTF? Seriously. I could be his mother. Also he was very attractive and if I was a different sort of person and not worried that being back home he could be related to me I could have gone there.)
At any rate, we're getting the edge of what I hear is the biggest hurricane to hit North America. I don't watch the news on tv and just get secondhand crazytalk from family or days' later information from podcasts or maybe BBC radio on Sirius if I turn it on in the car (at no point did I claim not to be that person). So I got the info yesterday that the storm was probably going to be *donald trump* huuuuuuge /donald trump* but I ignored it due to the fact that I'm FROM here, so I know mostly you role the dice and if shit is for real you'll know by idiot yankees acting afool all over the place.
Also, I'm not a bleeding idiot. When I moved home I started stockpiling water and pantry-stable food and got a generator so I didn't lose all the fuckton of shit in my deepfreeze. I worked at putting that shit up, Skybully do not fuck with me!
It started raining yesterday.
Not normal rain. I live in what used to be classified as "subtropical." I could dispute that at this point. We've always had tons of crazy normal rain and junk, but I shit you not that this year it rained at approximately the same time every day for months. Not a small amount of rain. Isn't that a rain forest? The sky was weird the last couple days. It looked like it wanted to kill us. I know thunderheads and storm clouds and blackouts from grey. This was not that. It really bothered me in the back of my mind. Like a bit of a niggle where you're creeped out. Keep in mind I love the rain. I have a biological inclination to sleep when the barometric pressure changes. My body just feels it as it goes and I relax and get tired. I can fall asleep sitting up when a thunderstorm rolls in.
This was not like that. The weather is weird in a place where we don't even talk about the weather but in passing because we just expect it. People are now commenting on how flipping weird the weather is here. Yes, it's an El Nino year, but I was talking to someone else local yesterday and he said "It seems like every year is an El Nino or La Nina." Truer words.
Basically what I'm saying is that climate change is real, and I will happily fart all over deniers.
Now after all that garbage and how I'm going to die in a flood (standing water in my yard and driveway already and it hasn't even hit all the way here), me and the kid carved pumpkins all evening. If I knew how to post pics here anymore, I would bc our porch is fucking AWESOME. Email with your number if you want a text of it.
Incidentally, Whiskeytown is the soundtrack for this bizarre part of my year. I wish I could shoot myself of Ryan, but he keeps being my forever fake boyfriend.
So today: nonsense. I had to go get tarps and shit to lock down things in my yard bc of something else I will mention in a moment. While out I was complemented on my shoes (they have a bicycle motif, this is them if you want a pair: http://www.alegriashoeshop.com/Alegria-Paloma-PRO-Tour-p/pal-221.htm -- I have them bc I can wear them to work) which always makes me happy since I'm a bit particular about shoes. Then on my next stop I had a whole weird situation where a kid who was maybe 19 hit on me in a very elaborate and clear way. I express this in those words because I tend to be very bad at knowing when men are into me and not just being creepy. I sent the kid on his way in a polite fashion and shook my head and did my thing. (He invited me to a Halloween party. WTF? Seriously. I could be his mother. Also he was very attractive and if I was a different sort of person and not worried that being back home he could be related to me I could have gone there.)
At any rate, we're getting the edge of what I hear is the biggest hurricane to hit North America. I don't watch the news on tv and just get secondhand crazytalk from family or days' later information from podcasts or maybe BBC radio on Sirius if I turn it on in the car (at no point did I claim not to be that person). So I got the info yesterday that the storm was probably going to be *donald trump* huuuuuuge /donald trump* but I ignored it due to the fact that I'm FROM here, so I know mostly you role the dice and if shit is for real you'll know by idiot yankees acting afool all over the place.
Also, I'm not a bleeding idiot. When I moved home I started stockpiling water and pantry-stable food and got a generator so I didn't lose all the fuckton of shit in my deepfreeze. I worked at putting that shit up, Skybully do not fuck with me!
It started raining yesterday.
Not normal rain. I live in what used to be classified as "subtropical." I could dispute that at this point. We've always had tons of crazy normal rain and junk, but I shit you not that this year it rained at approximately the same time every day for months. Not a small amount of rain. Isn't that a rain forest? The sky was weird the last couple days. It looked like it wanted to kill us. I know thunderheads and storm clouds and blackouts from grey. This was not that. It really bothered me in the back of my mind. Like a bit of a niggle where you're creeped out. Keep in mind I love the rain. I have a biological inclination to sleep when the barometric pressure changes. My body just feels it as it goes and I relax and get tired. I can fall asleep sitting up when a thunderstorm rolls in.
This was not like that. The weather is weird in a place where we don't even talk about the weather but in passing because we just expect it. People are now commenting on how flipping weird the weather is here. Yes, it's an El Nino year, but I was talking to someone else local yesterday and he said "It seems like every year is an El Nino or La Nina." Truer words.
Basically what I'm saying is that climate change is real, and I will happily fart all over deniers.
Now after all that garbage and how I'm going to die in a flood (standing water in my yard and driveway already and it hasn't even hit all the way here), me and the kid carved pumpkins all evening. If I knew how to post pics here anymore, I would bc our porch is fucking AWESOME. Email with your number if you want a text of it.
Incidentally, Whiskeytown is the soundtrack for this bizarre part of my year. I wish I could shoot myself of Ryan, but he keeps being my forever fake boyfriend.