85.8 May 7, 2007
Excuse me if this post if a bit fragmented and nonsensical, but it is almost 8 p.m. as I write this and it is 85.8F in my apartment. hot. People, that is HOT! This is one of those days that make you realize that there are randomly hot or cold days everywhere, and even the famous SF fog can’t save you from a scorcher now and then. Those that know me are aware that I operate in a narrow temperature range – approximately 75F to 50F. I like to think that I can tolerate low temperatures, so I might extend the low end of this estimate, but my friends might disagree. I’m sure I complain when I’m cold, but really its not as bad as the heat. When it’s cold I can hide under a comforter, or wear a ridiculously warm sweater, or two pair of socks. When it is hot, or I am in the sun, my brain hurts. Hurts in an awful way.
Today the only thing Carmen I could do at 5 p.m. to get a respite from the heat was to drink Mint Juleps. I made them in a Mason Jar and felt totally like a Hazzard county Duke while doing so (a feeling which I am always trying to capture). Free mint from the shady courtyard outside my apartment – hooray!
So even though as I write this it has cooled of to 85.5F in my apartment I am going to do some knitting. If it were a weekend I might have attempted some more solar dyeing (it is all my crappy car is good for, really). But instead I am going to pick up some wool and enjoy it. And I am going to have visions of Sweet Georgia dancing in my head – I won some from Moraie. At this point, doesn’t giving away Sweet Georgia qualify you for knitting sainthood? Check out her purse – I love it.
gratuitous photo of Noro that I bought during the ‘Knit Happens’ sale.
insanely hot in SF the past two days. yuck. i feel your pain.
what\’s this \’knit happens\’ sale?
that\’s some gorgeous yarn there!
I saw you won – congrats! Pretty Noro… Hope it cooled down enough for you to sleep – or that you passed out and it didn’t matter.
I love the idea of car dyeing! Wish I’d known about it when I lived in Tucson for 10 years!
I feel the same as you about the heat. When it’s cold you can put on lots of clothes, when it’s hot, there’s only so much you can take off!
it’s a balmy 36 degrees out this morning, and a happily climate-controlled 67 inside my house. what you need is a vacation to a more reasonable climate.
eh.. All I could think about was how it was far more miserable every day of summer in NYC. And now that you have survived the only day of summer we are likely to have you can go back to enjoying the fog. I was going to say its a good day to not live in a greenhouse but did they ever turn the boiler off in your building?
I feel ya on the heat. It’s bad over here in the valley, too. Should be cooling down soon, though. I hope or my brain will melt. Hang in there, sweetie.
Man, that it insanely hot for this time of year. I hope that it cools down for you fast. Congratulations on the win – winning yarn has to be the best thing ever!
I really feel your pain. It has started getting really hot down here (in between the huge rain/tornado storms) and it got to 83-83 in my apartment and I figured the A/C was broke. After a few nights of sleeping in that (ugh), they finally cames and fixed it today. I will send you some cooling vibes. ~~~~~~~
Dang, 86 billion degree weather and then a big gorgeous pile of 100 percent Japanese wool. Life is so strange! XO & A/C’ing!!!
Well it isn’t warm now.
Damn heater has been going off at night and in the morning so I bet your apartment is stifling.
Now I am freezing.
Lovely noro. Why didn’t you show it to me when we was drinking mint julup?