let's talk about the weather

i have noticed something in the last couple days. when the air is so thick i can't breath and it's so hot that i have trouble dragging one foot in front of the other to walk i get really persnickety. every thing needs to be just so and when it's not i get very frustrated.

i don't know, it's like my patience is some kind of fabric that shrinks when exposed to prolonged heat. actually, it's funny, i can picture it you know, some lovely knitted woolen thing that runs through my whole body and normally is soft and stretchy and comfy, but as it gets hotter and hotter it becomes less and less flexible. it starts drawning itself together. it becomes an inflexible cord. it sits, stretched taught in my body, reacting to every little touch, no matter how minor. patience pulled as tight as it can, feeling things that normally are just softly enveloped by it.

i'm hoping to stretch it out again with lots of sleep and airconditioning.