the joys of the south

for those of you who know me well, you know that i am southern. my family has been living in the south for the past 350 years. it pretty much defines who i am. i love being southern. i love the south.

most of the time...

but right now IT IS TOO DAMN HOT!!

94 degrees in the shade, heat index of 104. gaahhhh. humidity, humidity, humidity. i got in the car (after opening the doors and letting it air out for a good three minutes): burned by the door, burned by the seat, burned by the seatbelt, burned by the steering wheel. i've taken to keeping mcdonald's napkins in the car to hold while i attempt to touch scalding faux leather. you don't even want to go to the pool because that involves being outside. (i just hope it doesn't reach the level it did last summer when the actual temperature was 105 and the heat index was 120. which was, of course, the same two weeks that 30,000 boy scouts descended on us for the jamboree.)


other than melting, life has been the same. just putzing around until i start work in august. i'm moving to n.c. sometime around august 10-12. i start work on the 17th. i've been baby-sitting a bit, the first time since around junior year in high school. i never knew four years olds could talk that much. i know i haven't been updating that much. blame it on 1) the lack of anything remotely interesting going on in my life, and 2) the fact that my internet access is at the library. you would think that since we live in the d.c. metro area (how sad is it that urban sprawl has spread to the point that people are commuting from 60 miles outside of the city?), we could get high speed internet. but no. because we live on a private road, which only contains three houses, mind you, we are deemed to be too far away from the dsl connection, they won't run a cable line, and my dad refuses to get satellite internet because he says it sucks. so i live in a void of information. it's worse than grove city. i scour the newspaper every day, desperate for some connection to what the heck is going on in the outside world.

oh, and i'm quite excited for the matrimonial extravaganza next week. i can't wait to see everybody.