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.

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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

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?

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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.