A Year In Texas

[soonest_mended]

It has recently come to my attention that some of you fellow Northern-Hemisphere punks are ALREADY HAVING FALL. At the end of September? What are you thinkingThen I realized that not everyone has spent a full year in Texas, and that most of you probably think it's normal to stop getting sunburns in August. So I'm gonna walk you through a year of

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[soonest_mended]

oh man it's pouring right now and it's still so hot that there's steam rising from the pavement. There's a heat advisory this afternoon.

[dextrosinistral]

Ahahaha. Fucking true facts. xD

Man, I should write a year of weather in Texarkana, because we are so goddamn weird in relation to most of the state... and I can do 11 months in the Texas panhandle (we have to skip July, as I lived there from August to June).

[soonest_mended]

YOU TOTALLY SHOULD, I'VE NEVER LIVED IN TEXARKANA

[soonest_mended]

HAHAHAHA. I know I'm gonna offend the crap out of some Houstonians, but you know, they can't even pretend they don't have trouble breathing when it's not drizzling.

[pirateyes]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE HELL.

The weather where I lived all my life until 2 months ago has similarly ridiculous weather patterns, but more on cold end (being in the Canadian prairies and all). Winter is at least 7 months of the year (probably 8-9 based on Texas standards). The summer is a bitch too, though. I COULD DEAL WITH HEAT BUT NOT WITH A SUN THAT PIERCES INTO ME LIKE A DEATH LASER. And our spring and fall make up approx 2 weeks total of the year so don't earn mention.

People keep moaning and warning me about the Vancouver winter and how it's rain and dreary all the time. And I'm just like DO YOU NOT REALIZE WHERE I COME FROM?! I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF RAIN. I'M MORE CONCERNED I'LL LOSE ALL MY LEG MUSCLE FROM NOT HAVING TO WADE THROUGH THREE FEET OF SNOW.

(Haha. Apparently weather is a sensitive topic for us both. The joke is always that no conversation happens in my hometown without some mention of the weather).

p.s. thanks for the celsius conversions, I would have been lost without them.

[soonest_mended]

Oh man, the Texas weather gets me riled up in political activist-level ways. I cannot wait to get out of this hellhole of ignorance and sun-boiled sewage.

and I'm glad the C conversions helped, I really do try to make my posts at least marginally friendly to metric users and "goddamn Yankee/Yurpeen furriners" (which somehow extends to Canadians as well, I can't figure it out).

[soonest_mended]

I am freaking flattered. XD

The great difficulty seems to lie in writing novel material in a conversational tone. If you look back very far in my LJ, you start to find original fiction, which is stilted and hokey and smells strongly of cheese.