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

[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.