Now bring me a mint julep and fan me, please.

[snowcoma]

Sweet melty Jesus on a popsicle stick, it is hot.

I know, I know, I'm an Alabama girl at heart, the heat shouldn't bother me, but for fucks sake. The South has air conditioning and ceiling fans, because unlike these uncultured yankees*, we understand air-flow and the heat tolerance levels of the human body. Right now, if I want my apartment to be

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sayin' hi

[morianna1]

snowcoma-
It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, and thanks for befriending me back. I was raised in the South and can relate to the heat and humidity. I now live in NoCal, but went back South for grad school. The best thing about the South (and there are many, many things, indeed) was the low cost for power, including letting the AC run 24/7 in the summer. Out here in CA, frugal power bills run from 100-500, and if you run AC, it's on the higher end of that scale. Fortunately, I found a little house in the redwood forests, and our high temps average somewhere below 75 F. Indeed, if it creeps above 67 F, the natives start complaining about the heat wave. Amateurs!! Anyway....Nicetameethca.

Re: sayin' hi

[snowcoma]

Hiya!

Don't get me wrong, I love the Pacific Northwest, and could live here happily for the rest of my life. I just miss the land I grew up on, and certain aspects of the culture. And the lower cost of living sure was nice.

California kinda scares me, but it gave me Mythbusters and several of the people I love dearly in life, so it can stay. :)

[cleolinda]

Oh, hey, you're from Alabama too?

[snowcoma]

Technically, I'm Virginian (and 15th generation Virginian to boot! It comes with smugness and a crushing obligation to make sure I'm across the state line before I have any potential kids), but I grew up in Alabama (outside Montgomery for starters, then in Huntsville for the last six years).

I miss it. Give the red clay a pat for me, will you?

[erelin]

We're using physics to cool our apartment- which is to say, our windows all face south or block sunlight via the building next-door, and the air vents and such I *believe* all connect to the basement, which acts as a sort-of heat sink for the building. We don't open windows until the heat of the day has gone by, and our apartment stays manageable with just the application of a semi-broken fan.

I just really, really, really hope that either it cools down tomorrow OR I don't get called into work (either because no one calls out sick or because it is so hot that no one wants to go to the zoo). I really don't want to be working outside on a day like tomorrow, and I know that's where I'll be put if I am called in.

At least the lizards are happy.

This is also my first summer here with hair.

[snowcoma]

I know that Seattle is supposed to be in the seventies tomorrow, here's hoping Portland goes along with it.

Fingers crossed for you! The only way I would go to the zoo in this weather would be to fling myself into the polar bear tank; either I'd cool off, or I would stop caring about the heat.

Re: This is also my first summer here with hair.

[erelin]

More likely, you would FIRST cool off and THEN stop caring about the heat.

[rowanyote]

New Tattoo?