Waiting for the rain...

[felis_ultharus]

We were teased by glimmerings of rain this morning. It's already the flesh-roasting period of summer.

I've been going into the local government-run clinic every day for a post-op bandage-changing.

My writing is going very, very, very well. Still don't want to jinx it, though. Now I know how J.K Rowling feels -- scared that if she says "it's getting close to done", she'll suddenly want to re-write it again.

Of course, she has hoards of screaming fans to answer to. Thank goodness I don't have that! And even if I were to finish a version to my satisfaction say, today or tomorrow, there'd still be loads and loads of editing.

Uh, yeah. No game this Sunday, as it shall be melting_penguin's birthday. We have an anime night coming up on Friday, after 7. And em_fish, you're hearby formally invited -- I checked and it's okay ^_^

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[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Weenie. Weather.com says you're at about 77 degrees F (25C). Down in Phoenix, where I grew up and where my parents still live, it is 97F (36C). Tomorrow is supposed to be 103F (40C) and they have random warnings up like "Re-hydrate at every tee!"

Our record, set one July while I was still in grade school, was 123F (51C). They printed triumphant T-shirts to commemorate it. "You can fry eggs on the sidewalk" is not a figure of speech in Phoenix. You can also bake cookies by wrapping the dough in foil and leaving it on the dashboard of your car while you're shopping.

This is why I summer in Flagstaff.

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I melt at the very though...

But then, I go outside in a mini skirt at -30C whereas some people in other places start shivering and complaining about the cold at 0C. So I guess it's all about what you're used to. ^_^

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

After a certain point, cold is just cold. ^^ Flagstaff actually has a climate more like New England than the rest of Arizona; we are roughly 2000m up the side of a mountain (and damn you all, incidentally, for making me convert from Imperial for this.... ^_~ ) and thus we have things like 'winter' and 'precipitation' that are unknown in the rest of the desert southwest. There's a housing development about 20 minutes away on the highway that's a dead ringer for Harwich, Mass., where my grandparents used to live.

Besides which, if you wear go-go boots with the microminiskirt, most of your legs are covered anyway. It's just the interesting bits that are showing. XD

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

fair enough, I do wear go-go boots. ^_^

We don't really have seasons here though, more like winter and summer with a week or two of rain in between. ^_^

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Naa, I attempted to info-dump the whole paragraph of information I have on the Witchblade comic, as I was journal-hopping, but apparently I'm not on the talkback list. ^^; Wasn't important, but I waste my time with comicbooks in all languages, and I like being... I suppose it's helpful, if you can ever get me to shuddup...

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I added you to my friends. Now you can comment to your heart's delight. ^_^

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Back in my Goth days, I asked on a Goth board what appropriate Goth outfits were for -40 weather. Answers ranged from "Same as all weathers: fishnet, leather trenchcoats, etc" to "Whatever keeps you warm" :)

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I have a dear friend who is not exactly Goth, but -- she's a theatre techie and she dresses, as I once told her, like she is going to a skateboarder's funeral. She has divided the year into 'mesh weather', where she gets to wear her fishnet hoodie, and 'not-mesh weather', where she gets to wear her black greatcoat with pewter buttons. ^_^ She has been this way for so long I actually admit to feeling triumph when this year, I got her to buy something blue.

I actually don't think I've ever seen a picture of you. I caught some of the other Dopers in a long-ago photo thread -- I've been lurking for years over there -- but I don't think you were among them. (I know I've seen matt_mcl. Damn cute. Some days, I do wish I were a boy...) Should I be snickering at Goth!Felis, or wolf-whistling?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I don't know if either. I went for understated most of the time -- black silks, never fishnet (I could never pull that off), a bit of silver jewelry and black nailpolish. I didn't try for flashy, knowing it wouldn't work :)

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

As long as you didn't have a giant silver skull hanging off your gauged tongue piercing, you couldn't possibly have looked as silly as some of the people I went to high school with. Some of the more sedate ones, er, only wore more makeup to school than I did.

I was class of '99, however, so I suspect I (unfortunately) caught Goth at its peak. I'm rather more impressed by the guys who can apply eyeliner in a sane fashion, as opposed to looking like Cleopatra.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

We've had 40 degrees plenty of times. I'm pretty sure it once hit 50.

Montreal has an absurd temperature range. in the last ten years, I know of two days where it went from -30 to 30 in 24 hours.

Also, may I direct you to this conversion chart (http://www.thealders.net/humour/2006/03/22/the-official-canadian-temperature-conversion-chart/).

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I think I would quite like it up there. I'm fond of weather. It's still novel to me. I have actually been known to giggle at the thought of going to class in meter-high snowdrifts, despite the fact that I am only about 160cm in my best scary platform boots.

Phoenicians break out the winter coats and boots and start complaining that they're freezing at about 50F/10C. I never understood this. I moved to Flagstaff on purpose, as up here we have mystifying things like negative temperatures! and the ever popular precipitation! Every year I get to scare the snot out of SoCal freshmen by informing them that not only does water fall from the sky up here, but sometimes it also freezes, and they are going to need snowboots.

My mother, on the other hand, is a born desert-dweller. They came to visit near Christmas last year, and despite some disappointingly mild weather, she showed up wearing a fur coat. Squirrel. It was like something out of AbFab, only worse, because I was looking right at it. Dad and I, having some modicum of sense, were in jeans and sweatshirts.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Do the people of Phoenix really call themselves Phoenicians...?

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Yes. Usually in very large letters on the side of very pretentious buildings.