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So in case you don�t happen to live in Southern California and you haven�t watched the news for a while, let me fill you in:

IT IS MOTHERFUCKING HOT AROUND HERE!

We�ve had record-highs for the past few days (it was 101 degrees in Long Beach yesterday, people. That�s BY THE OCEAN!). Prior to that we had a couple days of normal weather, preceded by a few more days of record-highs.

Our strawberries are melting.

I was so hot yesterday that I really couldn�t even do much. I didn�t really get out of bed early enough to go for a walk early in the morning � if I�d started walking by the time I was up and at �em I�d have been getting home right smack dab in the middle of the hot day, which I didn�t want. So I figured I�d clean my apartment and do some laundry during the day and go for a walk as the sun was going down.

Here�s what was wrong in that plan:

A. I didn�t realize that it would still be like 90 degrees at 7:00pm.

B. I didn�t realize that not only would it still be hot as hell late in to the evening, hurricane winds would kick up at about 5:30 and keep a�blowin� for several hours.

C. I didn�t realize that I only had enough quarters to do one load of laundry.

D. I didn�t realize it would be so hot during the day that every time I started cleaning I would work for about half an hour before I found myself hunched over in a sweaty mess in front of my tiny fan, with a glass of ice water held up to my forehead. I finally gave up after cleaning only my bedroom, bathroom, and about half my kitchen.

Plus, you know�the amount of housework one feels the gumption to get done is directly related to how much mota one does or does not partake of.

*ahem*

So apparently we are to have one more annoyingly hot day today and then our temperatures will drop down by ten degrees each day until we are back down to our seasonally normal mid-seventies by Thursday. And let�s hope that mild weather lasts at least a little while shall we? The damn fires have already started burning and it�s only May 3.

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Word of the Day for Monday May 3, 2003

abstruse ab-STROOS; uhb-, adjective: Difficult to comprehend or understand.

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And hey...I let my 500th Entry pass on by with nary a mention. As the 2nd anniversary of my time here at diaryland is rapidbly approaching, I thought I would celebrate this milestone by taking a moment out of each day to look back. So in this vein, I give you...

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