yup, it's really really hot

so it seems redundant to even mention the weather. or the fact that it's a furnace. you know like when you open the oven after it's been preheating at 450 and you peek in and get that whoooooosh of hot air. yup. but it really is just hot--i'd been obsessively watching the temperatures, here, in riverside, san diego and aalesund but at a certain point it's just too hot to matter. but when it gets hot like this for what seems like day after day after day it's the same as when it rains and rains and rains-- i start to wonder if it will always be like this and then of course you think about polar bears and al gore and it makes you really really sad and then of course you run your air conditioning nonstop. but today the hot just seemed like it was doing just that--permanently altering the course of well, things. and this is why i think so--my neighbor was out at three in the afternoon apparently grilling. and when i peeked out because i was convinced there was a fire in the hills he just smiled with a large glass of wine and seemed to just have coals on the fire for the purpose of standing outside and said "yeah, it's hot. i didn't think anyone would be outside" and then he smiled. i don't know, it just was odd.ut he was right. both times we took sierra out for his p&p stroll the only sound you heard was the humm of air conditioners and there were no skateboarders, bikers, joggers, tricyclers, nor yappy dogs anywhere to be seen. and no hummingbirds either. of course the nectar is no longer red but a kind of urine yellow. ugh. but it does seem like the heat just evaporated everyone and everythign away . . .

but i think it did break. i opened all of the windows, turned the fans on high and despite the fact that the temperature went up a couple of degrees in the house i feel like i can breathe again. for dinner i steamed some broccoli with some lemon pepper pasta and shrimp and it was yummy and owen discovered he loved "shrimpies" but then the entire house smelled like broccoli steam. i hate that. so hot or no hot i had to get some fresh air in here.

i guess i just start thinking of this filmstrip i saw in the fifth grade or so about this girl who was waiting for the sun--they were in this place or planet where it had only ever rained and the sun was supposed to come out. anyway this one girl believed in it most and was so excited and some mean boy locked her in this room with just slats for windows right before the sun came out. and she missed it. and then somebody let her out afterwards. and she went outside into the rain. and that was it. that was it! so has anyone else seen this filmstrip? it haunts me, it does. anyway, m. hope you get to see the sunshine and we get some rain.

please excuse the incredibly banal post. but all of this heat has sucked the writing life out of me so perhaps now i can get past the hot. oh, and i haven't recharged the camera batteries in a few days. too hot, you know. anyhow, if you're reading: thank you.

2 comments:

Michael said...

The film is called All Summer in a Day

It haunted me as a school kid as well.

gocarcarcar said...

wow. i can't believe we've never talked about it. i knew we had the same childhood ;)