As much as I hate it, whenever it's that horrible, cloudy, you-think-it's-about-to-pour-with-warm-rain-but-it-never-does climate, I feel like my true self.Isn't that strange? Maybe I have had a lot of really major life defining moments to the low, rumbling tune of distant thunder that never actually becomes a storm.
I can't stand humidity. I love crisp air, and cool breezes. I no longer think of weather as a boring conversation starter. I think hearing about people's favourite temperatures and conditions is beyond exciting. I wonder if anyone loves oppressive heat. Could I ever fall in love with somebody who loves humidity? Does anyone like this exist?
Taxi drivers have great observations to share about weather. Generally. I suppose it's because they have to make so much small talk. I feel bad when I discuss how lovely the sun's been lately with taxi drivers, because I'm so sincere that I seem fake. They don't know that I actually want to know about their favourite day of the past week, weather-wise.
My housemate likes to wear lots of layers to bed and wake up sweaty. I hate sweating. But that's because I'm always sweating. It's not a novelty for me. I have overactive sweat glands. Only it's a cool sweat.
Body temperature is so weird. One minute you're standing shoeless on somebody's front lawn, wet grass soaking through your stockinged feet, and then you're in a bed where somebody had been sleeping mere seconds earlier and it's just too warm and you alternate between blankets and no blankets and you can't get it right and you wish you just stayed outside where the air was perfect.
In summer I am going to sleep in a seashell kid's pool filled with either water or pillows in the backyard.
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I guess comming from ancestors of tropical climes i don't mind the heat or humidity. I guess REAL humidity in Perth is a rarity so i revel in the stickyness. It makes me feel strangly comforted in a way. Plus i associate heat and humidity with summer along with all it's furnishings. Also i don't sweat much even at the gym running for 30min which perhaps explains why i don't mind oppressive humidity.
Try sleeping with a goose/duck down doona, it's an excellent insulator against cold or warmth. but i guess if you produce heaps of heat under it- you'll prob end up like your friend.
I'm with you Alyce, I'm more of a sweater than most of my friends. What a pain. And it always seems to strike at inopportune moments, which makes you seem like someone suspicious freaking out about being caught for having done something dodgy. Lame.
I really like how this is written. Is flows nicely with the stream of consciousness type feel. Very organic. And I got a good sense of the hot and cold sensations you were talking about - there was a good range of sensory descriptions.
And yeah I always get the same response when i discuss the weather too..
A long time ago I got into a very hot car. My friend said don't complain, just decide to enjoy it. Just decide that it feels good. You can tell yourself this and if you're persuasive enough you will believe it and then you start enjoying being really hot. I think you can do this with any weather. Just decide to like it. You can.
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