Heat and humidity

[pegkerr]

The humid air drapes over my shoulders with a tangible weight, soft and wet and heavy. I feel listless and cranky. Delia is leaning on my chair, her little nose sweaty. My office is the hottest room in the house, and I am tired of the heat's oppression, the difficulty breathing, the clammy and uncomfortable feeling. There is a pollution alert in the Cities today; it has been going on for several days. There is no sign that the heat will break soon.

I do not want to cook dinner. I do not want to go to karate. I do not want to do anything that I am supposed to do.

Comments

[snippy]

Definitely move here. It was 57F last night, and although it will be over 80F today, there is no humidity. And it will cool to the low 60s or high 50s again tonight--that's just how summer is, here.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Do you resist/dislike/object to window air conditioners?

Heat + humidity make me unspeakably miserable. Getting a tiny one-room air-conditioner has made such an improvement in my quality of life, it's hard to describe.

In theory, I don't really like the idea. In practice, I'm completely sold on it.

(Although, oddly enough, even though I always resisted /going/ to the dojo in hot-horrible weather, I never actually minded working out in it once I was there and doing it. Maybe it's just that I was going to be flushed and hot and sweaty anyhow, so there wasn't as much difference. Before and after yes, during, no. Amazing how little that knowledge helped me motivate myself to go...)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We have a window air conditioner in the girls' room. We have an overhead ceiling fan in our room. Lately, that just hasn't seemed like enough.

*Sigh* I am really fed up with this.

[sheryll.livejournal.com]

I'd offer to hug you, but I'm equally hot and sticky. It's 86 in this house, according to the kitchen thermostat. Not bad. Last heatwave got it up to 96 in here.

*feeling equally listless and cranky*

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah; that kind of weather is awful. My trick is spend the day in a coffeehouse with free wireless.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Then write your karate identity post. I have a long comment in response to your series of posts, but I don't want to post it in response to an old comment where no one will see it.

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Couldn't draft it tonight; I just spent a fricking hour and a half trying to find a hotel room in San Diego in two weeks that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

It'll have to be tomorrow.

I'm probably too crabby to draft it tonight anyway.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Here in Florida, the heat and humidity are a tag team that wait for you to step outside, then grab you, drag you around the corner, rough you up, and follow you around all day, shoving you at odd moments just to prove they can.

(Side note: It is rare indeed to find an unairconditioned house in Florida these days. My mother-in-law's house is one of these. Visiting her between April and November is like taking a holiday in the Devil's summer cottage. I feel for you; sometimes, listlessness really is the only option.)

[dragonpaws.livejournal.com]

Yeah... It is WAY too hot here in Minnesota. And I'm without air conditioning or any method of cooling other than a small fan currently blowing hot air from the outside at me, doing summer research and living in Rand dormitory at Olaf. I'm mellllting...

At least work is air-conditioned.

[pameladean]

This is evil weather.

Two tips, though I don't know if your family will eat them: couscous and bulghur are both grains that can be cooked by boiling water in the microwave, pouring it over them, and covering them. Couscous is ready in five minutes. Bulghur takes a bit longer, but you haven't got anything steaming up the kitchen. I made a salad today of couscous with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, basil, crushed red pepper, a bit of soy sauce, a lot of chopped scallions and green pepper, and some chickpeas. But you can do a lemony chicken thing with bulghur instead, or use canned fish.

Maybe it would be too squeaky, though.

P.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Definitely too squeaky for my family; the scallions would be the kiss of death.

I made no-cook wraps for dinner.

My god, I am fricking melting. I'm contemplating pulling out the ice cream maker and making some cranberry juice sorbet, even if it is 11:00 at night and it would take half an hour.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Never mind. I just found some frozen grapes in the freezer. That'll do.