Wednesday, August 02, 2006
On popsicles and other cures for heat
Yesterday, the boy and I bought a huge box of popsicles in an attempt to do away with the heat, and I should say that whoever invented these icy shades of candy-coloured purples, pinks and oranges (who was most probably as sweaty and painfully hot as we were yesterday) should get a big damn prize for brilliance.
There is consensus that the air-conditioning in our apartment is broken, faulty, or just plain never there to begin with. And what do you know, the fan is not doing this room any justice at all. My religion essay is due tomorrow, but my braincells and the weather are conspiring against me, melting them down into one big jumble of a neuronal mess.
On other changing things:-
The summer is ending; the last days of the sun burning on our backs and the sweat upon our brows are approaching. Soon, the air will cease to be moist and musky, the streets will cease to emit heat from their pores, the days will cease their hours long. Soon, the breeze will carry with it the chill that cuts right into our bones, the sidewalks and their inhabitants will hide behind the pending sheets of white, and the skies will darken in their relentless progression towards the hibernation of the coming months. There will be no more girls prancing down the street in short skirts and flipflops, no more children giggling aloud in their bathing suits under fountain showers, no more ageless lovers holding hands strolling across the acres and acres of fertile ground. Soon, the summer will be gone, and it will take with it the habit we have accustomed ourselves to. I can't help but wonder if the heat that dispenses itself from the atmosphere will lose itself all too well, as well, in our union of two. But at the same time, I cannot envision the cold that would need to follow suit. No, I cannot envision that cold coming from you.And so, I will always be that silly girl who cries a little too much, a little too easily; who thinks a little too much, a little too heavily; who makes you a little sad but a little more happy, too :)
sherry @ 3:11:00 pm
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