For the threepeat:

Migraine's won. No way I can be coherent in half an hour, even though I could be present. Why can't I ever make it more than a week? Why can't my doctor find a stupid painkiller? Grr.

Okay, back to bed for me.

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I don't think that's a big fret unless your showers are short, but I don't remember the cutover.

I think you're right, but it SEEMS like more. Plus, I'd rather not fret over how much I use for a shower, so I've displaced that worry onto the bath. Look, it's my coping mechanism, okay?

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Timelies.

Migraine's won

ita, I'm so sorry. My mother had to handle migraines for most of her life, but now she hardly has them.

Re showers: I shower in the evening, because I'd like to be clean before I go to bed. In Israeli sweaty summers I also take a shower in the morning or before I have to leave the house. I remember a day when I took 4 showers in 24 hours: morning, before leaving for a concert, after returning from a concert and in the morning after it again. Plus, if I take a shower in the morning, hair goes bananas.

Re article with a cool name (thoughts of death make us eat more cookies): SO needs to be an album title.

Re Kat: all the ~ma in the world.

I can't remember what else I wanted to Re about. So tired. It's so hot. I'm so happy it's weekend in an hour, and a long one, followed by a holiday.

And this morning I sent a picture of my tank top, with me in it, to an internet person (friend) I never met. Seemed reasonable at the time. It must be the heat.

OK, gotta be a good girl now, and wrap work for this week.

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I didn't know that was POSSIBLE!

Yup. A friend of mine is actually allergic to the meat of all ungulates. She's tried most hooved animals that are served as food and always broken out in hives. She's pretty much meatless except for some chicken now and then.

My asshole brother in law once pooh-poohed my mom's allergy and slipped ground venison into a batch of chilli. Mom took one bite and instantly started to get huge hives all over her face.

Cash, your mother sounds like a Far Side cartoon.

Heh. Yup.

Owen woke up at 3:30 a.m. complaining of mosquitos in his room. I shut his window and spent a half an hour trying to convince him there were no mosquitos in there but he was up. We came downstairs and I thought he'd fall asleep. No such luck. He's going to crash and burn before he goes to his last day of preschool, I suspect.

There's not enough coffee to conquor the gronk this morning.

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In Israeli sweaty summers

I thought it was dry! I was promised a dry heat! Is it not dry?

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A friend of mine is actually allergic to the meat of all ungulates. She's tried most hooved animals that are served as food and always broken out in hives.

Note to self: human immune system freaky.

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dear sinuses,

I thought we had worked things out over the winter. STOP draining at night.

signed,

sore throat

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I thought it was dry! I was promised a dry heat! Is it not dry?

Depends where. Desert parts are dry, but Tel Aviv (and the cities near the coast) is hell.

All in all, this country has enough climate cells for a country 10 times bigger.

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Fair enough. Besides, I'm going to Egypt -- I don't know why I think the climates should be so similar.

I've learned to say "I'd like some coffee" and "You'd like to drink some tea where?" to a man or a woman, which may or may not be very useful, but I certainly hope the next lesson is going to be "The restroom is where?" Mind you, I only know the words for hotel, restaurant, here, and over there, so the answer would be of limited use. Oh, and Abu Abess Street and Abu Sayyid Station. If the bathroom is in one of those places, I'm golden.

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I thought it was dry! I was promised a dry heat! Is it not dry?

It depends on where you are. In Tel-Aviv and the rest of the coast area, it's humid enough to feel like you're swimming in the air instead of walking through it. There are no rains during the summer like in NYC, but the levels of humidity are pretty similar. ita would love that weather.

However, there are mountains (like those around Jerusalem) and a desert or two (like the big one down south), and there it can become really seriously dry. Well, more in the desert, obviously, not that much in Jerusalem area, but still, no humidity there. So this weather is more for you. It's not much more than an hour by car from walk-in-soup Tel-Aviv to breath-the-sand Be'er-Sheva (in the desert), and 45 minutes or so from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, so you can experience lots of different summers in one day.

Now, of course, the question is, when are you coming over to check out my answers? Um, I mean, hey, Emily! Long time no post together.

OK, here's the reason I popped my head in here in the first place, before I started luring innocent Buffistas to the I-just-left-the-shower-and-the-one-thing-I-want-is-to-shower-again that is Tel-Aviv in the summer: If you wanna say that there is a difference between Thing1 and Thing2, but for whatever reason you don't wanna phrase your sentence like that, but rather say something like "Thing1 is different __________ Thing2".

What would you put in the "__________"? "from"? "than"? Something else entirely?

Thanks, hivemind!

[Edit: why am I not surprised that Shir needed less than two lines to write the answer that took me three paragraphs?

Also: Egypt! It does have similarities in climate with Eilat, the southern border of Israel, who shares a border with Egypt. When are you going? And couldn't you cross that border a bit and come visit here, too?]

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