Yeah, I'm not allowed to move any further north. I'd lose what is left of my mind.

In the summer, in northern climes, the days are even longer.

Things I like about summer:

• lack of itchy wool issue
  
• skirts with no tights
  
• one does get tired of one's sweaters
  
• popsicles
  
• open windows/crickets/gardening/actually wanting to be outside
  
• gas bill goes way down

Things I hate about summer:

• shaving
  
• I only own 2 pair of shoes that don't require socks, and it's too hot for socks
  
• sweating
  
• heat-insomnia
  
• heat-induced inability to eat anything of substance
  
• smoggy ozone taste to the air
  
• B.O. among the people with whom I am trapped on public transit

On the whole, I would like it to be autumn most of the year.

The thing about the north seems to be, however, that it is BOTH really hot and really cold. Every time a student from California stays for the summer, they are so surprised at how hot it is.

I think I need to move to Alaska.

Also, why are they turning our air conditioners off at work? They say that "because of the heat we have been asked to turn the air conditioners off". I think maybe it is more because of the lack of electricity.

In the summer, in northern climes, the days are even longer.

Go far enough north, though, and you have long days that are also much less hot. Or are near a lake. Everybody wins!

I do love how they are simultaneously like "STAY INSIDE WHERE IT'S COOL!" and "BUT DON'T RUN YOUR A/C IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY!!" @@ This is why I'm glad to be at work.

Also, I think my new boss loves me, never a bad thing.

ION, the rising Hispanic population in Wisconsin has been reflected by an addition to the Milwaukee Brewers sausage races:

MILWAUKEE -- If it is possible for a sausage to strut, this one was.

A 9-foot-high chorizo, with its goatee, sombrero and bandana, raised its arms in triumph Saturday night as it made its debut in the "Sausage Race," a diversion during Milwaukee Brewers baseball games that features four mascots--a hot dog, a Polish sausage, a bratwurst and an Italian sausage.

From Section 204, dozens of Hispanic fans chanted: "Cho-ri-zo! Cho-ri-zo!" A few snapped photos on cell phones. Francisco Verduzco, wearing a straw sombrero and a green Mexican League baseball jersey to mark the team-sponsored Hispanic night, said he finally felt like a real Wisconsin resident.

"It was time they had the chorizo, no? It's hard to explain, but I feel proud of it," said Verduzco, 42, a factory worker from Oostburg, Wis.

Wisconsin has experienced an infusion of Latino immigrants, putting a new face on a region where the legacy of German immigrants remains strong. Now that the chorizo known as El Picante will be a regular Sausage Race participant, both communities can find common ground in the sports exploits of encased meat.

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Although I don't like DC's late-summer so-humid-it's-like-walking-through-soup ridiculous heat (high of 101 today!), I much prefer summer to winter. My winter clothes are all so boring; sumer is the only time I get to wear pretty skirts and dresses all the time. So I put on skirts and sandals the minute it's warm enough out, and keep them on until my toes start going numb.

I am happier murderous.

sarameg, may I tag? I just love.

I think I need to move to Alaska.

Where libkitty is, it's quite mild. Where I'm from, NSM. I've experienced 95 degree weather (and no one has A/C), and -60 degree weather (at that point, even plugging in your car does no good).

There's a reason I live in San Francisco now.

Everyone else, stay cool, please. I like my Buffistas. I don't want them to melt.

Are you calling us all wicked witches?

Yay for encased meat product inclusiveness! Not so much the Melting Pot as the Meat Grinder, but even so....