frozen into coats, white girls of the north

today it's hot. almost ninety degrees, not bay area weather at all, at least not east bay. most people i've talked to today are grumbling about how awful it is, but i can't get enough of it. there's not much air conditioning out here because it doesn't usually break eighty and even then it's always breezy and pleasant. i love it, i love the humidity, i love the still, hanging heat, i love the warm breeze coming in through the windows.

i feel like i have finally been won over by it out here. i can't imagine not having every single day be beautiful and comfortable, with the exception of like ten days of rain, most of it not even during the daytime anyway. i like the east bay better than san francisco because the fog rolls in over the hills but then always lifts by early morning.

i miss the extreme weather of the east coast, mainly the humidity and real summer weather, warm rain and most of all thunderstorms. there was thunder and lightning ONCE in the almost two years i've been here. i miss blizzards and the first snow and ice storms, but my fondness for extended winter weather is rapidly disappearing. plus, we get earthquake excitement in exchange for an otherwise fairly homogenous climate. winter in sweden is going to be pretty funny.