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Blogroll Me!
There are people on the net that have nothing better to do
with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Friday, April 01, 2005
Unseasonably Warm
I hate those two words. "Unseasonably warm." When the weatherman utters them it's cause for much grumpy sighing. Unseasonably warm to Floridians might as well be replaced with Abandon all hope ye who enter here. It means I don't care that's it's only April 1st, you're going to be hot and miserable and there's nothing you can do about it until November. Don't expect it to get cooler or more comfortable when the sun goes down. Don't expect any Spring-like cooler nights to hang on from here on out. And don't expect any relief because you're in for the long haul. I hate when the weatherman uses those words. It just reminds me how miserable it's going to be again and for how long. Thing is, people get prolonged periods of cold being miserable. They get freezing temps and the sheer frustration of too many bleary, frigid days. They think warm days, sunshine and humidity can't really be all that bad. But they're wrong. Too much of anything is too much. Florida is the only sub-tropical state in the union. That means our sun is more intense then yours and it means you burn almost instantly without shade and sunscreen. This is the place in the Guinness Book of World records that's been listed as the most consecutive sunny days - something like two and a half years of sun each and every day. We're not called the "Sunshine State" without reason. But our sun causes 2nd and 3rd degree burns in a matter of minutes without protection. Our sun is brutal. Florida is also basically reclaimed swampland. It's natural climate is muggy, humid and overly moist. Ever take a shower really hot but forget to turn on the fan or open the bathroom door? Know how the air gets so full of water that it literally gets hard to breathe? Ever spend time in a sauna? Ever feel the cloying pressure of the damp air? That's every day. That's why our hot weather is hotter weather then other places who might be at the same temperature. Because our weather always includes 80 or 90-something % humidity. Consistantly. Add in the dangerous-to-be-in sun strenght and you start to get an incling why it's brutal down here. For most of the year. Because we don't really have seasons like the rest of the world. We have warm and we have hot. The warm we can all deal with. But the hot lasts much, much longer. So hearing the words, "Unseasonably warm" from the forecaster last night just made me cringe. Another seemingly un-ending wall of heat, humidity and lethal sun begins. Another season of being unable to do anything outside, forsaking Disney until the end of the year, avoiding parks, outside fairs or any kind of non-air conditioned, inside-a-building event. Another season of hiding behind climate control and dreading having to use the car - since it lacks a/c and there's nothing hotter then a car in summer in traffic without air. Next time someone says they'd be happy to take the weather here, the humidity, the sun, the brutal consistancy of it all - please really do take it. We won't mind.
~ flowers bloom by Memory and Dream
at 4/1/2005 12:27:00 PM ~
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