I needed a jacket on Thursday. Two days later I'm putting my AC units in the windows. I do not LIKE! And the damn weather forecasters are pulling that "2 days later" shit on when the heat is going to really break.

I think that one of the reasons why its so horrible in DC is that we had really nice, unseasonably cool weather for the last few weeks, then BAM! Heat of the summer, baby! It's not unusual for this time, it's just that we didn't have the gradual warming, so it just feels hotter.

I think that one of the reasons why its so horrible in DC is that we had really nice, unseasonably cool weather for the last few weeks, then BAM! Heat of the summer, baby!

Pretty much exactly what happened here. I suspect the whole east coast has been going like that. As aggravating as not knowing how to dress for the day can be (needing a coat in the morning but wanting to be in shorts in the afternoon), I'll take that anytime over this oven/sauna weather. Meh and feh, I says.

NYC kind of skipped spring this year. We went straight from "Why won't it warm up already?" to "OMGWTFHEAT!" without our usual 2-weeks-of-perfection in between.

And the humidity is the killer. As long as there was a breeze yesterday, it was just fine. Then the wind died down and it was like someone had filled my living room with SOUP.

I think we had two weeks of perfection! Spread out over two months, but still.

I think we had two weeks of perfection! Spread out over two months, but still.

Heh - okay, maybe if you added all the nice days up, we had our full 2 weeks of spring. But they weren't consecutive.

The keep saying its a wave of high pressure, but doesn't that usually bring drier, windier (if not cooler) air? I thought it was low pressure that brought the hot soupy weather?

I have not been outside since about 8:20 this morning and I will not venture out until around 5:45. I am pretending that the heat will have subsided by then. Inside a third of my department is hot, one third cold,a nd one third ok. I have to wear a cotton cardigan and foot slippers with my heels, but then I am ok.

This commencement speech by J.K. Rowling is awesome:

The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure....

I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ,...Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way....Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned....

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