Once again I've been caught out by the end of summer. I don't know why it's so shocking - it's not like it hasn't happened every September since, oh, the dawn of time. And yet. It feels like in the space of a week we've gone from 'OMG it is so hot my face is going to melt off my head' to cold, grey, and damp. I actually started wearing a jacket ( Read more... )

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Four Things (The Quick 4th of July Edition ( Read more... )

Nnnnrgh. It has just finally slipped below 95 degrees, now that the sun is going down. This afternoon, while we were hiking all over the West Side, it was 99. My mom's apartment? Currently doesn't have a working cooler. The whole Corrales Bosque is closed for fire danger. Summer in the desert can bite me. I almost cried when I got back to my dad's ( Read more... )

I maintain that if you are capable of sitting through an entire Mariachi performance without wanting to get up and dance, or at least clap along, I am going to start harboring serious doubts about whether you have a soul. I do not think anyone at the concert I went to tonight had that problem, though ( Read more... )

I am so sick of this cold weather, I do not even have words for it. This is California! I should not be freezing this badly in November! I don't think I even got my coat out of storage before I came back from winter holiday last year, but I am seriously considering it this week. And I broke down tonight and bought a pair of fingerless gloves from ( Read more... )

After reading everyone else's entries last week on getting snowed in all down the east coast, this morning I woke up to this:


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Three Things About Wednesday:
( Tattoos and Cannibalism )

Never have I been so glad that I no longer live with my grandma as when I realized that, with a 5-day forecast of 90F as the low temp and a minimum humidity of 25%, I will be in a house with a man who TURNS THE AIR CONDITIONER ON. I will be in a house with a man who has an air conditioner! You cannot see it, but right now I am being quite smug at ( Read more... )

Dear New Mexico: what the hell is up with all this rain? I don't know if you got the memo, but it is NOT JULY YET. Thunderstorms belong in mid-July, not June! And this is just getting ridiculous ( Read more... )