2001-05-08 - 9:09 a.m.

damn it's hot...

just after 9am and i'm already gettin' stuffy... i hate this heat. funny that... i love dry heat, and wet heat gets me nostalgic... it's this damned in between heat... where there's just enough humidity to make it uncomfortable... and the land isn't used to it so every bit of noxious urban toxicity that usually just leaks into the ground decides to come on up and hang in the air to see what's goin' on... kinda the way oil seeps up onto the blacktop after a post-draught rainfall... or earthworms in the morning dew...

for me, that's hell... the ol' allergic asthmatic that i am...

but i love the dry heat of the arizona plains... in fact, i crave it... my wife's not a heat person though (fourth generation san franciscan now removed thanks to the outrageuous rent), and that may put a dent into my plans of settling in new mexico... she's suffered through some moderate new orleans weather recently, and i'll take blazing desert over saturating swamp any day =) so who knows...

on that note, i'll take the swamp heat of the deep south over this crap we've got here any day...

then again... maybe it's the air conditioning that i'm so fond of... a requirement for living in those parts... whereas the bay area is unaccustomed to heat, and nary a residence is equipped in these parts with the capacity to cool... heat is definitely more bearable when you know relief is just inside the front door...

:::sigh:::

someone please roll in the fog... thank you...