Heat dumb
Posted on | June 9, 2008 |
So my sister has shamed me into blogging, telling me I suck at updating and that I’m basically a miserable failure in the regular posting department. Yeah. Well. Not much to update about due to the fact that I’m MELTING. It’s suddenly summer here. The grass is knee high and I seem to have allergies. It is 90 degrees and humid and my brain feels too large for my skull.
See aren’t you glad I’m updating?
At night when Bean invariably crawls into bed he very much resembles a cross between a hot water bottle and a colt: all legs and heat. Typically I take a knee or a foot to the eye at least once a night. He seems to think sleeping perpendicular to me is fun.
Other than heat and sleep deprivation, I’m limping my way through my last full week of school. We’re doing everything we can to keep cool, but thanks to 1970s inspired public school architecture, my classroom is south facing and flat roofed. By mid-afternoon the classroom thermomiter read 92 degrees. Yeah. So. Where was I? Melting brain? How can anyone possibly expect anyone to accomplish anything in such conditions? Much less seven year olds who are hankering to be outdoors. They look at me with hot cheeks and sweat on their upper lips, and I can tell that all the words I’m saying about place value are just floating somewhere between us in litte clouds of moisture and heat. They nod, but they don’t hear me.
I’m still crossing my fingers; trying to remember that everything is good right now. Spain in a week. A gorgeous dress. Pretty shoes. Friends I haven’t seen in so long. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. Then graduate school. Life is good. But still, I can’t help wanting what I don’t have. More on that when I’m feeling like being less mysterious. And less melty-brain like.
Oh, and does anyone have any recommendations for making sleep more tolorable in the heat? We have a fan, but being all prissy and noise sensitive, it basically is sound torture all night long for me to listen to it whirr back and forth. I try sleeping with a pillow over my head, but then the heat, well. You get the idea. Anyone know some really good earplugs?
Enough. Hope everyone is happy and well and lovely and possibly less heat-stupored than I.
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June 10th, 2008 @ 2:01 am
I can’t live without the fan, personally, and have gotten used to the noise, though it drove me crazy too for a long time. Can’t sleep in the heat at all, myself, so I sure feel for ya. Aren’t you done with school yet?? My kids are out as of tomorrow…aagh!
June 10th, 2008 @ 2:19 am
Cool shower just before bed! And I also got used to fans after awhile since they were so indispensible in a house without A/C. Maybe you can find a quieter model? By the way, I love the “cross between a hot water bottle and a colt;” how DO kids manage to be perpetually sticky and angular?
June 10th, 2008 @ 8:40 am
I used to use a frozen hot water bottle when I lived up north (before migrating south where the house is 92 degrees at dawn unless we keep the air conditioners going!)
June 10th, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
two things more for hot weather sleeping, only a sheet, a soak T shirt to sleep in and a wet cloth for your eyes. As to the noise of the fan can’t help much there. We keep the AC at 79-80 and I thought I would never sleep in that heat and now I do it just fine! So I guess you eventually get used to it. Though humidity can be tough.
June 10th, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
send a little heat this way, the NW is freezing!
June 10th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Oh, graduate school… you are very mysterious and I am very curious. Someone recommended putting a pan of cold water in front of a fan, but that doesn’t end the fan and it makes the air more humid. I like the idea of frozen bottles though! Frozen peas while you sleep. Hmm. Enjoy Spain. Am fiercely jealous. xo
June 10th, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
convince the colt that it’s too hot for a big boy to sleep with two other warm bodies and hang up wet clothes in the room to dry. or move to sacto…it’s nice and cool here. okay at least there’s low humidity.
CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU!!!
June 10th, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
I really cannot comprehend how people survive without air conditioning - we’re totally spoilt down here, but then it’s always hot as hell 2/3rds of the calendar year, so there you have. We love our fan (ceiling) and sleep with it on even in the winter. I did see on some site where people said to sleep under a wet towel to make sleeping in the heat bearable. If all else fails, how about a window unit?
And SPAIN! Hooray! And graduate school? Even better. Am jealous. Does this mean you will or won’t teach next year? Am also very nosy.
June 11th, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Funny - I just cursed my husband the other day about the weather here in Savannah (105 degree heat index). I said - “We could be in Vermont right now if you took that other job and I could wear jeans if I wanted!!” Go figure.
I personally can’t sleep without a fan. I need the noise. When the new baby came, she was a month early and couldn’t keep warm enough so we couldn’t use the fan in our room - I hated it. Those tower fans are pretty noise free, if you get a better made one.
Graduate school, eh???!!! Excited to hear the rest!!
June 14th, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Baby girl! I-pod. Audio books. I’m married to a snoring virtuoso and I’m telling you…audio books. I’ll understand if you feel that it’s too much of a disconnect from your dear husband to find plugging into a separate world a viable option but for me (31yrs in) it’s a guarantee of an enjoyable focus, lulling and allowing sleep to steal over.