how do you feel about the summer?

summer 2012, folks

let's talk about it

are you ready?

I'm having fun.

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i feel like I like long cool evenings and drinking outside and pool parties and camping, and am excited in general but some of the general sweating and ughness is never fun for me

LOVE IT

Don't know what I'm gonna do when the Nba finals end. No NBA or NFL in July leaves me hurting and kinda bored w sports for a month

Now matter his fun your life is at the moment you still need someone to home to on espn.

bikes, bbqs, music, friends, good strangers, beer, warm nights, chance meetings, going with the flow, leaving early, staying late, looking at the sky
i am ready for more summer!

all of the above except "leaving early"

For me it's going to be working in 100+ where even the breeze is warm, no shade and lots of dust! West Texas! And the AC just died in my jeep. On the bright side, at the grocery store you can practically buy every part of a cow or pig, and I'll be employed again.

I will vicariously live thru this thread and pout.

I will mostly be staying inside with the curtains closed. A radical departure from normal behaviour.

it is year-long summer where i live, you best believe i crave a good cold winter. generally speaking, summer is really not a season i enjoy, since as soon as the sun shows up i get sunburned. i do like the evenings though, late dinners/drinks with friends.

much like Gandhi felt about Western civilisation

My least favorite season.

Hey it's the fun bunch

Summer is awful so far. Another sweaty six-day factory job, but now with impacted wisdom tooth.

Hopefully, things improve

I always think 'hey, summer, summer is Good, it'll be fun' and then it never is and I'm always disappointed.

However, this summer I am spending most of August in Canada. I have pretty high hopes for it: warm August nights, backyard barbecues, road trips, weddings, mountains, seeing my friends, petting my dog a lot. YESSSS

also: bike riding. YESSSS

Summer kind of sucks. The kids are out of school, getting dumber and getting in the way. It's hot. Pool is nice but too crowded. heat makes me tired and too uncomfortable to cook.
And then there's the sweat.

But, it's fun to grill and drink.

Wearing khaki shorts, vans without socks, and just brewed up a fresh vat of home-squeezed lemonade.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ac3x_elvis-costello-the-other-side_music

Apparently some non-American ilxors are cranky because their summer has not yet arrived in full force, leaving skies drippy and overcast, and temperatures cool. In western Oregon I never expect anything different than that until Bastille Day, the Official Start of Oregon's Summer.

I need to move to western Oregon.

i'm totes into summer
-- fewer items of clothing required
-- food is abundant, fresh, and to my liking
-- biking on a warm quiet night is as good as it gets

eaving skies drippy and overcast, and temperatures cool That is my perfect idea of weather

I definitely like summer, if I have a chance to get outdoors a lot. It is the best season for getting into the high mountains around here, which I love to do. I should manage to get out a fair bit this summer, so I am feeling optimistic about that. In fact, my wife and I are currently in deep discussions about whether I may be able to retire officially now. Please do not hate me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHOysDgpNs

(I kid, so far summer is great; only short statebound vacations due to my sweetie's school/work schedule but we'll be doing around three of them.)

In England there has been no summer since 2006

you don't know yr born. try living a few hundred miles north.

im moving from glasgow to vancouver so i may be substituting rain for more rain, but im hopeful i'll see some sun this summer, which would be cool for a change.

But you're *supposed* to get that weather, we've just been repeatedly unlucky

we've had the odd summer. at least 5 in the 27 ive lived. the weather looks comparatively "good" down there probably 80% of the time.

when i watch the weather forecast.

There are bats out at night, and in the day, it is scorching.

Haven't seen any plums or cherries at the grocery store yet this summer.

Vancouver has plenty of sun in summer

and beaches!

I will mostly be staying inside with the curtains closed. A radical departure from normal behaviour.

otm

this town is too hot

feeling okay about summer right now

gonna be mid-90s by wednesday tho

summer was fine when I lived in california, but summer is quite clearly the worst season anywhere w/ humidity

holy crap that jump from tuesday to wednesday

it looks like the week after that will be okay xp

i don't really see any point to temperatures above 75 (80 if you're at the beach)

You two otm. I'm fine with summer so far because it's been lovely and mild. I like sun and fruit and the beach and sitting outside but I'll be singing another tune when it's 90+ and swamp-ass city outside.

summer was fine when I lived in california, but summer is quite clearly the worst season anywhere w/ humidity

― iatee, Sunday, June 17, 2012 12:17 PM (13 minutes ago)

It can be a tough go in inland CA as well, temps around 100 all summer, air full of ag haze, no ocean breeze.

110 in Sac yesterday

oh yeah I remember now I hate summer

It's going to be in the 90s all week. I feel sad and angry about summer.

Too hot, fuck this shit

Overall I hate summer but the long days mitigate the loathsomeness of the heat and humidity. The sun should always set about at 9:00 or 9:30 or later.

This year I have gotten very into the beach and that interest has made the heat more manageable.

There is a nice pool about a mile from my place which I hope to haunt this year. But it was like a steam bath here yesterday and a friend and I went there and it was CLOSED! So we wandered around the hot miserable sidewalks and went to see a movie in an ice cold theater.

Anyway, summer is fucking horrible but the misery is inescapable so I am trying to manage the pain with fun stuff.

are the summers worse now than when you were a kid? i believe that they are

Took the kids to the beach today. Cooking up some corn on the cob.

I love summer, but living on the third floor of an unconditioned walkup has made for a challenging and lazy few years. But the late night sun makes it all better. I'd take this over snow any day, even if my face is sweaty.

Got invited to a BBQ/pool party for next month yesssss!!!! It better not rain.

Good summer so far for me. Spent a large part of yesterday outside.

are the summers worse now than when you were a kid? i believe that they are

― mookieproof, Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Objectively or subjectively? They're definitely hotter objectively, but speaking subjectively, I never liked summer much as a kid, either. I did have a really good summers at 19 and 20. I lived w/ my parents (they live at the beach) and both years my college friends had summer rentals in the same town so my schedule went: ride bike to beach, hang out and get high, shower at friends' place, go to work, get off work and get drunk (I had a fake ID), ride bike home, repeat until Labor Day.

Wednesday is going to make me want to self-destruct my entire job/life in order to go huddle under the biggest ocean wave I can find.

i think i may go swimming this week

the beach is RIGHT THERE
why not

Wednesday is going to make me want to self-destruct my entire job/life in order to go huddle under the biggest ocean wave I can find.

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, June 18, 2012 10:02 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. Wednesday and Thursday are going to SUUUUUUUCK.

If it's in the 90s when I'm in Chicago in 2 weeks I really will stay in museums and bars (and the White Sox park) exclusively, as soon as they open.

I would invite NY crew to my rooftop pool but I can only have 2 guests a day, plus during the week it closes at 7pm (useless).

It's okay, mostly I resent being that unendingly hot well after 7pm--but thank you! I think Weds for sure will be a night that I go to the Rockaways after work and watch the sun go down from the beach, where it's 12 degrees cooler.

I have to say that I do feel a lot better about summer thanks to central AC.

We have a central AC system, but it only has vents on the bottom floor of our house, which we don't occupy much and which stays mostly cool in the summer anyway. So every summer I have to drag out (and dismantle and clean) the windowshakers for the upper floor. They're really inconsistent (either freezing cold or struggling to keep up with the heat) and sometimes leak all over the floor. That's the thing I hate most about summer, these days.

We don't have central air but we got a couple of good window units with thermostat controls on them so the condenser turns on and off to maintain the selected temperature. Totally worth it, especially in the bedroom where we can keep it a nice consistent cool temp all night.

so glad my bedroom is on the northeast corner of the first floor

I am not normally a sun-and-heat person but I've got some good feelings about this summer. Not so great feelings about it being 97 degrees today (!!) but the humidity is only 50%, right? Could be worse? gaaaah

life will be awesomer once my prescription sunglasses get here, I think

Could see my breath while standing in the rain waiting for the bus this morning. Summer?

Yesterday I was swimming in the Russian River and later at a pool in Healdsburg. Today:

54°F°C
H61° L50°
12°C°
H16° L10°
Partly Cloudy
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San Francisco

Which, in SF is pretty typical of the summer.

I like being able to walk around outside in t-shirt, shorts and sandals

but the awfui humidity and having to put on sunscreen if I plan on being outdoors for more than half an hour and getting a headache if I forget to wear a hat generally makes me want summer to end somewhere in mid-july

On the other hand, eating and drinking outdoors is the best

xpost hmph.. you san francisco people and your talk of 'summer'

:)

during the week it closes at 7pm (useless).

No shit. 7 pm???

I like being able to walk around outside in t-shirt, shorts and sandals

Qualifying weather for this attire starts at about 60º F for me, though usually w/ a hoodie at hand. SF and other West Coast places would be so perfect for me, but I just can't imagine living out west again for no rational reason. The only other place I want to live besides Chicago is New Orleans, so I am destined to a life of horror, I guess.

today = unacceptable

what's the temp/humidity?

high today was 98; humidity is currently 49%

it doesn't seem so bad to me actually

don't take its side

thumbs down

iatee wtf

well the numbers look bad, but outside doesn't seem as nightmarish as the numbers would suggest, that said, I have decided to not be outside atm

J'ACCUSE

Just rode out wave of anxiety/claustrophobia brought on by waiting for the bus in the sun in jeans and a dark polo shirt. It felt like I couldn't take a breath. Fuck this. The bus is really cold, so that helps.

i am at altitide in west texas for most of june. it is a dry heat but it is a lot of heat. 5.44pm, 93F/9% right now.

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i experienced 105 degree heat for the first time, on sunday (i think we were somewhere near bakersfield), and i wondered how the fuck anyone lives like that. and that was dry heat. how do you function on a daily when that's what your entire summer feels like??

hide inside and curse the triple digits

that's what I do

there's no real going outdoors until the sun goes down unless you're insane

people like that function the same way most americans function...they experience the outdoors for approx 4 minutes a day

proud to be an american tbh

My weather app says it feels like 102 ;_; with "only" 42% humidity. When I got home from work I considered re-blow drying my wet bangs..but that would've been too hot.

About to cycle down the street for trivia night, I will surely die. It's been lovely, ILX.

rip ffm

95 degrees, 13% humidity

practically pleasant considering how the weekend was living in a pit of boiling lava

ZOMBIE LEX HAS RISEN.
It was actually quite nice plowing past all the people waddling in the heat. Let's talk when I get home, having biked uphill.

i feel depressed just thinking about living like that.

dear bay area,

i will never take your moderate weather for granted ever again.

xo

truly, it is a summer paradise

i visited sf in mid-september once and it was over 90 and no one had a/c

my friend kept saying 'it's never like this'

it isn't! there are maybe 1 or 2 days like that.

i experienced 105 degree heat for the first time, on sunday (i think we were somewhere near bakersfield), and i wondered how the fuck anyone lives like that. and that was dry heat. how do you function on a daily when that's what your entire summer feels like??

Whenever I hear people elsewhere (aside from similar hellholes like Bakersfield/Phoenix/etc.) complain about heat, I laugh a little. They just don't know. Texas summers are ungodly - we've already hit 100 and our last 100-degree day will probably be in mid-to-late September. Nights stay hot as balls. It's depressing.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/08/11/100-degree-streak-ends-temps-drop-into-80s/

last summer - 40 straight days over 100, right back to it, I think we finished @ 69-70 days over 100 for the year

Now that I have worked 3 days in west texas, my body feels completely drained. I'm not happy about summer. I did discover coconut water and it's my new favorite drink to beat thirst. The worst part is everyone says it's not that hot yet, wait till August.

My internal RealFeeler reads much, much higher than than Accuweather's.

Temp (°F) 89°
RealFeel® 83°

Humidity 37%
Dewpoint 60°

I guess the fairly strong wind accounts for the low number.

Wind (mph) 18 SSW

absolutely the worst part of the heat is hearing endless bitching about it.

For me it's the physical discomfort.

Just rode out wave of anxiety/claustrophobia brought on by waiting for the bus in the sun in jeans and a dark polo shirt. It felt like I couldn't take a breath. Fuck this. The bus is really cold, so that helps.

― Je55e, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is how I feel any day it's above 90. Panicked, like a trapped bird flying mindlessly into windows, like something is deeply amiss. Also I get all witty and nauseated in the sun. I'm a delicate flower.

Wilty. I'm rarely witty.

Haha "witty and nauseated." A pretty useless combo.

Barfing hilarity all over your shoes.

70% humidity in DC today. Best that, ILX!

I got 65% here, Q.. Toronto will catch up! :( Though apparently we have a thundershower coming tonight..

i have been secretly looking forward to the heat of the past two days.

i blame u

Grossing out my family notwithstanding, I think it's time for me to work shirtless for the next 3 months.

damn.
you folks make me feel so lucky to be sat here on the evening of summer solstice with t-shirt/hoodie/fleece on having watching it rain all f*cking day.
with a lot more rain forecast tomorrow and the day after.
yeah, i feel very fortunate.

i blame u

you should...i kept sneaking out of work to just stand in the sunlight and it was fabulous. i think i'm meant to live in tropical areas.

Mark, I know that weather would get tiresome after a while, but it would be a long, long while for me.

Long, chilly, drizzly springs get monotonous, but never grinding and miserable like summer.

I don't inherently hate the summer, I just don't see any gain in spending it any other way than on the beach with a cold drink in my hand.

If you hate the beach, or cold drinks, I can't help you.

beaches are kind of a different thing with freshwater bodies of water

I like the beach, but hate sitting in direct sunlight. But if there is an umbrella or a cabana, I will sit there with a cold drink with you.

FRESHWATER BEACHES ARE AMAZING, YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MIDCONTINENTAL PHILISTINE.

xp You and me, Jenny. We got this one.

I don't QUITE hate the summer, but it is certainly my least favorite season. As an adult, without the prospect of a prolonged summer vacation, it loses so much of its appeal. I am not into being sweaty all the time. At least the long daylight hours are a plus.

fucking hate the beach. all that sand.

lotsa trees by the beach in my hood waiting for me and you, carl

Well, I did say "different" and not "inferior"

ime (mostly atlantic and gulf coast, caribe) most saltwater beaches don't have the abundance of shade trees nearby that the lake does, for one.

i would take either, any day

I feel like my childhood aversion to the outdoors was based on a lack of good allergy medication and a lack of sunglasses

aw
yeah i think my love of summer stems from growing up in vancouver and summer being the season of least rain, most sun! and it almost never gets truly hot, not the way it does out here. and there's wind. idyllic, for a city.

lake beaches are nice, but if I have a choice ocean waves, saltwater, sand dunes are all time.

Lakes creep me out.

Mainly because I dind't grow up near any so I'm not used to them at all. Also, horror movies.

i'm totally putting on a horror movie when i get home

Lake bottoms are weird, at least where we we are...slimy rocks and mud and grossness, I hate having to wear shoes just to swim.

the trick is to NEVER touch the bottom.
that's why there are docks!

I like living near a giant lake, but never ever want to enter it.

lakes used to freak me out too because of the idea of what's growing and living in them, but really, the ocean is full of growing, living things too

and the ocean is much wilder and less predictable than a lake

one of my earliest memories is of me trying to run into the ocean as a very small child and my parents grabbing me

lake definitely a good idea for beginners, otm about the unpredictability of the ocean.

but the ocean will tell you when it doesn't want you to swim in it, it's just a matter of learning how to read what it's telling you

Our lake beaches HAVE waves and sand dunes!! And they NEVER have sharks or jellyfish!

Gah you people.

you are talking about inland seas tbh ;)

http://m.wikitravel.org/upload/en/b/bd/SleepingBearDunes.jpg

Here! And the sun sets over the water, like it's goddamn well supposed to.

http://www.calvin.edu/~bvriesem/Michigan%20Scenes/slides/Lowell%20Showboat.html

Wait why did neither of those images work??

whaddya mean you people

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DUNES!

DUUUUUUUUNES!

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Yeah, I don't think anyone criticizing lakes is talking about the Great Lakes, Laurel. Good try, though! :)

dude relax I wasn't hating on all lakes anywhere, I've only swam in Northern Cali lakes surrounded with trees and mountains and mud in the bottom

the Great Lakes are this whole other thing

We'll put it this way: Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, and we're criticizing the type that 9999 of them are, not the one nice one.

I have the big lake on the brain because I'm going to be there in a week.

Actually, some of the boundary waters ones are nice but also cold as hell so not awesome for swimming

what is the lake that Laurel posted pics of? I wd go there

Who said anything about Minnesota?

fyi Cali beaches that I've experienced are cold as HELL, seriously don't know how anyone can swim in that. It's like swimming in a defrosted freezer

It was the first thing that came to mind when I was thinking of the average freshwater lake versus the great lakes, what with their tourism marketing being lake-based for so long

http://www.mealtickets.com/wp-content/gallery/beautiful-benzie-county/lake-mi-sunset.jpg

i don't know what happened; i used to hate feeling sweaty and gross in the summers when i was a kid, but now i'm like an old lady who wants it to be all tropical climate all the time. i feel like this is related to how i don't really want to do anything but lie around and read and drink. anyway, summer is my favorite now.

i'm on the other side of that lake every day

I have outdoor music festival fun planned for August, and camping planned for end of July. Summer fun AHOY

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Laurel - Like Michigan basically just looked like the ocean to me. That was fine. I'm talking about lake lakes. The still freaky kind. You know the type I mean. I would totally go in Lake Michigan.

the Great Lakes are this whole other thing

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, June 22, 2012 2:35 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is where we will be camping

fun frolick in muddy lake or horror movie waiting to happen?

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When we were in Chicago we took a walk along the lake after going to the zoo because we were looking for this boat restaurant that Carl had spoken of. I think I said, "That can't be a lake!" about 50 times.

Going to be at my lakeside cottage as of Wednesday night! Unfortunately it's so far north that the water is rarely swimmable. Hopefully this warm spell will have affected the lake as well.

Now that I live in an apartment with central air I fucking love summer. As it turns out central air is a complete game changer in regards to my position on this matter.

Hahaha! Central air is a dream of mine. Never had it, can't wait for it.

It's amazing.

today i came down off the mountain to get some central air and do this basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXF2UEGDqI

I've lived a block from a beach (on a river) for two years and just went swimming at it for the first time last weekend.

Laurel's side of Lake MI is preferable, IMO. The water temps are way warmer. Two weekends ago, the water was ~ 62-65F here, but due east on the MI side, they were reporting 70s-80F! And like Laurel said, the sun sets over the water like it's god damn well supposed to. Even so, I love our lake and the lovely beaches.

Temperatures are expected to be a little below average for the time of year, especially in the south and east, but could recover to closer to average during any drier, sunnier periods.

next month's forecast, after about three months of mostly crap weather

It is so hot in Del Rio, TX right now but dry not humid...car ac broke so summer might just suck 1pm-sun goes down which is a few minutes past 9pm.

digging a ditch
wasps
Corona
neighbors yelling at each other
cloudy
honeysuckle

One summer when I was in middle school, I got busted for sneaking out of my house. Grounded for three weeks, I mostly confined myself to my room, where the a/c from our central system never really reached. I sat around in my underwear all day up there. I brewed up some powdered lemonade mix, which I kept unrefrigerated in a caraffe in a bedside drawer for several days. I listened to 98 Rock, because I was trying to get into classic rock at the time. At least once an hour, they played"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You".

Feeling that version of summer, these days. Less beachy, breezy.

Over it is how I'm feeling about summer. What's today, August 5th? Yep, that's about right.

Me, too. I got my first really seriously wave of "I NEED IT TO BE OCTOBER RIGHT NOW" this weekend.

nice day today! i rode my bike to work.

I also didn't know that you had to add sugar to lemonade mix.

it depends

it would have tasted better.

Me, too. I got my first really seriously wave of "I NEED IT TO BE OCTOBER RIGHT NOW" this weekend.

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Monday, August 6, 2012 1:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep, me too. I am for fall. That said, it was weird and a little disturbing to see all the fall seasonal beers out in the supermarket already. I mean however ready for this shit to be over I may be it is still only the first week in August.

Gross.

I hate when it is hot in October.

Christ it barely feels like Summer's begun in the UK. A brief spell of sunshine about a week ago and back to cloudiness and showers. Definitely the most disappointing year weather-wise so far, but then the weather here seems to correlate directly with the economy, so.

That said, last year summertime seemed to kick in about September and lasted till early November. It was amazebones.

I hate when it is hot in October.

― Jeff, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:15 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It makes me so angry! October is for sweaters and cuddles and all things pumpkin. It must be cool and crisp!

The feeling of being cold is horrendous and the closest common sensation to death, anyone rooting for cold is a traitor to the human race, endless summer for presidetn

^^

the feeling of being unbearably hot and sweaty is the closest possible feeling to hell and this summer can suck my cock ;)

sorry just slipped out!

being freezing cold is waaaay worse

no way you just buy a big bulky 80s sweater and look cute! it is really hard to look cute in 99* weather unless u are at the beach or on the tennis court

you can buy a giant sweater and a giant coat and a hat and gloves and maybe a face mask and then tolerate the icy chill for ten minutes, then shovel snow and sweat like mad inside of it all

lol this is like that thread aerosmith started a couple years ago. Cold weather forever. Well ideally not cold but crisp. Surm otm. This hot humid weather can suck it.

Moderate humidity, mid-70s weather forever

That's preferable to hot but cool crisp fall days are obviously the best days.

freezing cold -> wear more clothes, jump up and down a bit

unbearably hot -> nothing you can do about it

...so freezing cold wins.

I think you guys are confusing "freezing cold" with "cold winter weather." The regional equivalent of 105 degree summer days with high humidity is obviously 0 degree days with -20 wind chill.

it's the worst (in my clime), and may we all live to see it get apocalyptic.

weather that requires one to 'jump up and down a bit' is an obvious fail.

Every time I try to take my toddler out for exercise, she just wilts.

See, that's a bad sign. When babies start wilting you know it's too hot.

no 'toddler' is the name of hw's pet geranium.

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like this

awwwwwwwwwwwwww

i FEEL HER PAIN

omg she looks so sad!

tbf younger people can handle the cold better, and older can handle heat better, so maybe we're at cross-purposes in defining a best temperature

omg she is so cute!

i still vote heat over cold

like if we are comparing a 105F/40C day with -15F/-25C - the cold is simply *brutal* whether you're fully bundled up or not, you're putting all these clothes on not just to stay warm but to SURVIVE

tbf younger people can handle the cold better, and older can handle heat better, so maybe we're at cross-purposes in defining a best temperature

really? it's the opposite with me and my mom. thought it was just due to the person's natural tolerance for this or that.

vs heat, i mean, put a sunhat on and run through a sprinkler, problem solved
xp

We've really discussed this a billion times. Some like hot, some like cold. People are different.

older can handle heat better

This is one thing I like about getting older. I can handle hot weather better now, even compared to ten years ago.

I'm apparently just repeating folk wisdom. Children and the elderly both cope poorly with heat, it seems.

Still doesn't explain why my grandfathers think their homes need to be 80 degrees or warmer in the winter.

looking forward to it, four months to go, counting down

i know so many people who have cited "winter" as their main reason for leaving Montreal
i know no one who has ever left anywhere because of "summer"
anecdotal evidence!!

I get frustrated and almost angry with myself because I never feel that I use the time or get out of summer what I should.

Also, I hate heat waves which I why I moved to the Pacific NW.

sounds solid to me xp

i know no one who has ever left anywhere because of "summer"

one of the main reasons i left north carolina tbh, although it's probably just as bad here as it was there 17 years ago

yeah, I didn't leave North Carolina bcz of the hot and long summer, but I was glad to be rid of it.

Feel like summer is just about over even though we are in TX and it sort of never ends.

I left NC because of the rednecks. But I miss the longer summers.

I left NC bc of rednecks and general sucking including the bad, long summers. Summer is pretty bad in Chicago but at least it's short.

In winter I can get miserable sometimes, but once I'm indoors or on a bus or train, the discomfort passes within minutes. If it doesn't, I put on more clothes.

In summer OTOH, a few minutes outdoors takes literally hours to undo. And even when I finally cool off I'm clammy and pimply.

If you're consistently cold, you can pick up a cheap space heater or electric blanket and very conveniently warm up. Heat is harder to beat. God, what I wouldn't do for cheap, portable AC.

At least at my last job in NC I could hide in the walk in cooler while it was slow. And take dust baths in the corn starch in dry storage.

i just bought a handheld air conditioner that takes like 6 duracells or something

it's alright

also i think guys have a harder time with heat, honestly this is like a thing i think

An actual air conditioner? It's not just a fan??

The park by my work has its stupid misters on. What a waste of water and money. I was hoping that a couple of winters would put them out of commission, but they're still running. Even if they were effective in humid weather, the nozzles are at least 15 feet above an average adult's head and every drop of the mist gets blown away in the infamous Chicago wind.

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Hey, I felt that way this morning!

Honestly though, I have really enjoyed this (hot, miserable) summer more than any I can remember since childhood b/c I've gotten outdoors and done tons of stuff in it. Lots of swimming and laying and taking pictures on Lake Michigan (why did I not take advantage of our amazing beaches and waterfronts before???), cooking out, outdoor markets, and biking. I'm going to be disgustingly hot no matter what I do, and the difference between regular hot and doing-stuff hot is not so huge, and if I'm having fun, I'm spending a little less time hating summer.

But still, I'm looking forward to a good old fashioned fearsome blizzard, hopefully with thundersnow.

thundersnow's so unreal! I hope you get some.

You said something like that last year, Je55e. I think you need to turn in your Summerhaas card and go hang out with the Summer Lovers.

Unfortunately, were still over 60% humidity today so while I do not feel like I am being cooked alive when I go outside, I am still a sweaty mess.

though i work in a cubicle, it's in a pretty cool building. there is a skylight above my head, and the summer months, the sun shines directly on me and my desk for several hours in the late morning.

this makes me hot and makes it nearly impossible to read my computer screen. so i have to move to some other desk for a few hours, which is annoying as fuc.

happily the arc of the sun is moving on and soon this will no longer be an issue.

I admit I would like summer more if I didn't have to put on makeup and work clothes and walk to the subway and wait on the platform blah blah every day. That's the sucky part. If it was all tank tops and suntans and eating popsicles at the beach I would not complain. Wait that's not true. Well, I would complain less.

I'm enjoying summer more this year but I still hate the constant applying/reapplying sunscreen/trying not to get burned battle

if I didn't have to put on makeup and work clothes and walk to the subway and wait on the platform blah blah

God, yes. On mornings when I have to dry my face of sweat before I can put on the very minimal makeup I even bother with in the summer, I know it's going to be a bad day. Or when my eyebrow pencil gets sweat on it after I use it. SWEATY EYEBROWS. Bah.

Looking forward to using snow shoes I got last year. The baby was also given like a billion blankets. I'm ready.

Can someone answer a question about sweating please? When you bathe, does your skin absorb water that it swears out later? A friend who used to wear a lot of makeup (like on his face, neck, arms (lolgoth)) would sit in a hot place and sweat for a while after showering and before applying makeup bc he said he was getting rid of water from the shower. Is that BS?

I thought it was BS, but I sweat almost not at all, ever, and then last weekend, I showered and immediately went outside and I felt dripping on my foot and my head and arms were soaked and I wondered if the schvitzing goth was right.

Please help.

That is bs, the post-shower sweating has to do with going from a humid/wet climate to a drier one or a temperature differential.

Like, he was right about possible sweating ime, but it's not due to being a human sponge.

Hmm, I think I get it. I suppose whatever the cause he was right to wait out the sweating before applying his spackle.

I am sick in summer and it's the fucking worst. Summer colds should just not happen.

I have a summer cold too! It's been on for like a week and I'm sneezing my brains out. Drinking lots of hot water and taking shots of lemon juice.

It's a lot better than a month ago when I had pneumonia or back in may when I had wretched vomiting sickness.

If yr talking abt hot showers then yeah, they make you sweat because they raise yr body temp. I take cold ones in summer, tho.

fuck sweating

can i tell u a story. so the other day this woman had a wetting. on one of those 95* saturdays? ceremony was outside.

and then the dinner was inside? and there was NO AIR CONDITIONING.

umm that was supposed to be *wedding

hahaaa! i was honestly like wtf

That's horrible. If you are going to get married in JULY or AUGUST (why though? why????) do it inside in the air conditioning or you are a horrible person and I curse your union.

Or just don't invite me. That's okay, too.

I'm going to an outdoor wedding in early September which would be risky but it's in northern MI so it's going to be amazing.

Everybody should get married here:

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everyone got all sweaty and wetty at the wedding

Did someone say something about summertime in northern Michigan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA

there's going to be a joygoat at the wedding!

I hope that song is their recessional.

Also: psyched to meet a joygoat.

Think the last 4 days may have been it, hope not. Was pretty bright sunshine until today when it was grey but humid.

It must be summer! The fucking NBA is finally fucking over.

Sorry, tonight is the solstice, it's all downhill from here.

I think I've taken advantage of the long "summer" evenings ONCE.

hoe does one do that? read in the outdoors til 9?

bask in a park, drink outside, throw frisbees with nary a care in the world. time was you could throw a frisbee in the street after 9pm...

I start easing into seasonal depression after the summer solstice. Winter is right around the corner.

It hasn't even gotten really hot yet around here. We set up an aboveground pool in our backyard and I couldn't even deal with it. I dipped my toddler in and she curled up into a little ball. Supposed to hit the 80s next week at least.

No summer here yet this year but tbh I'm happy enough about that. Give me eternal spring/autumn and I'd be happy.

Here it needs to rain some more and for there to be a big thunderstorm to clear the air.