We seem to be driven by extremes. Kind of like the electorate.

So, shall we divy the potential sites into red (for hot) and blue (for cold) cities?

In *my* debt? How's that?

'Cause you were obviously feeling kind of wiped-out and cranky-footed and wanting to go back to your hotel room and hibernate until the Prom, and you overrode that perfectly sensible desire and instead toddled your crippled limbs out across four searingly hot blocks of potentially lethal pavement so that we could enjoy your company at dinner. And that was really a big huge kindness and a gift, and at the cost of no small discomfort to yourself. Hence, big love and debt.

Man. When I grow up, I hope I turn out as sweet and loving as JZ. Very seriously.

ION, I have a few photos in my grubby hands. I did get them on cd, but I have to figure out a place to load em up. Probably this evening sometime, if I can suss out Yahoo or whoever.

ETA: Also, Sean is correct on the desert thing (not enough precip), but I wanted someone to be pendantier than I. Thanks, big guy.

Always looking out for you, man. That's the kind of guy I am.

NOLA was hot and humid with many mitigating factors; DC was the fucking Gobi Desert.

Actually, although the Gobi desert can get pretty warm in summer, overall it's pretty cold as deserts go. For half the year it doesn't get above freezing.

Hmmm, billytea, how about the Kalahari? Death Valley? The Sahara? Some other hell-desert I can't remember the name of?

Anyhow, compared to NOLA, DC was deeply and abidingly miserable, except for having a hotel full of Buffistas.

And *mwah*, Teppy. Being all sneaky and behind-my-back with your noble act of dinner-joining and limping, but I caught you anyway! Ha ha!

Also, blushing at Heather's compliment.

When do we need to have stuff together for the cities we're pimping.

Wondering, because if it's in the next two weeks I won't have time to research and pimp NO, because I'll be in NO.-0 Though I'll be able to get really good firsthand stuff.

I haven't been to one of these things and I know upthread there was some list or something of what to look at. Could somebody Nilly that for me?

I came home completely wiped by the east coast weather; it's probably no coincidence that DC, New York and New Orleans are all in the top five of cities that people with MS - exacerbations of which are triggered by hot humid weather - are supposed to avoid. If I remember the list correctly, NOLA is numero uno on the "don't go there" hit parade. But it has Galatoires, and Commanders Palace, and fishing in Lake Pontchartrain, damnit. And really good music.

And NY, this time, wasn't even that bad.

NO is also in the top five sweatiest cities in the US. The others are Houston (I think it gets the top honours), Dallas, San Antonio, and some place in Florida. Can't remember which one.

Well, I also am mourning the lack of Buffistas in DC. I usually don't like being touched, but I found myself hugging people with few reservations. And the weather, though uncomfortable, was nowhere near as bad as it's going to get - it really IS a swamp, or at least it used to be. But as I pointed out to people, we haven't had a yellow fever or typhoid epidemic for YEARS.