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i've been enjoying the heat, but i grew up in texas

i just had to go downstairs and stand outside for a few minutes because it's so cold in here. think i'll make some tea.

Overheated, Sweaty Kid Stable

I lived in NC for 11 years in high school and beyond, but I dislike the heat more every summer.

I actually liked the heat for a while when I lived in NC, but not after a while.

carl, were we so anti-heat when we lived there? I don't remember this really starting until we moved to Chicago.

This is my time to shine.

And I remember YOU absolutely hating the heat and there is a post of yours somewhere from December, 2004 where you say that you wish it were colder!

jesserememberswhatyousaid.xls

that wasn't an accusation, sorry, I just was so confused when you jumped the heat-hating ship and went to the hot side

It was a subtle change. I don't like oppressively hot, but the last 2 days have been glorious. I don't like it hot at night.

This is not hot weather, folks.

This is warm and comfortable weather.

YMMV

This is my time to shine.

Light reflecting off the sweat, amirite?

And I actually don't think this is too bad at all, it just gives me the willies that it's happening in March.

Jesse, I definitely did not like the heat of NC (I remember one notable birthday of mine when it was in the 80s and I was just super depressed about it) but everything was airconditioned thoroughly and we all drove cars so it didn't seem as bad.

I'd whine less of we had the window unit running in the bedroom, but it's locked in a shed and it's supposed to cool off this weekend so, hot sweaty sleep it is.

thank god that xp allowed me to not make a joke about willies

Ha - I thought "beware the willies of march," but it's not that great a joke.

but everything was airconditioned thoroughly and we all drove cars so it didn't seem as bad.

That is important. That's why I say that living in New Orleans from May-November was easier for me than spending a summer here. Mostly because we walk so much here.

willies of March combined with jizz trees... I'm stopping right there

BTW guys -- this is a dogwood (I don't think this is the same tree you guys claim smells like crotch)
http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/27/2705/6PGND00Z.jpg

Are the crotch trees also the jizz trees? I always wanted to smell the jizz trees but now I never will. :(

I have never identified the smell of a plant as either of those things, so I have no idea.

God, know what is the best smell?! BASIL.

There are many dogwood trees from the train station to my house. I don't know if these smell like crotch, but I strongly dislike the way they smell.

One of my favorite commutes ever was a 15 min walk past tons and tons of jasmine and gardenia plants. It was dreamy.

That sounds nice. One of the places we lived when I was growing up had a yard full of lily of the valley. And honey suckle is always going to smell like my elementary school's playground in summer (we would walk there to hang out when school was out).

I would just like to say that the dogwood trees down south are so freaking beautiful right now. In a week they'll be invisible again.

I took a side street home from the bus stop yesterday and the entire street and a lot of the cross streets were lined with dogwoods, forsythia bushes, and some beautiful tree w/ flowers that look like magnolia but aren't, I think. What an amazing time of year.

Spring is the best.

I'm glad I don't have any problems with spring pollen (knock dogwood).

if you don't smell the jizz on the breeze....

Cummer breeze/Makes me feel fine

I demand a tree that smells like a pretty girl after you've been having sex for an hour and then ordered pizza and are sitting naked on the bed together eating it.

THAT'S spring, yo.

What if the girl is kinda homely but super nice?

What if you are eating bowls of dry Crispix?

xp Define "nice".

Check out these trees

http://www.baobab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/baobab-fruit-antioxidant-baomix-pulp-leaves-coffee-7.jpg

If "nice" = "a total freak in bed," she's guaranteed by Marxist science to smell even better.

I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me.

I wasn't trying to encourage you.

I always liked those biggest-sweet-potato-in-the-world trees.

I wasn't trying to encourage you.

That's what she said. And I said, "But it's spring!"

hi guys.

oh thank g0dd, it's t0dd

hi t0dd please talk about anything other than weather and jizz trees PLEASE

hahahaha PLEAAAAAASE

sup Todd!

hey t0dd, where did you and jeff meet?

hey todd i heard you went to that keith fullerton whitman performance
tell me about it

We met at a chicago beer tweet-up. Sounds so lame, but there was a lot of free beer. It was at Half Acre!

The KFW show was good. It was basically in two parts... the recording of the 80 channel thing he did in Paris (played in 4-channel of course) and then he played around with his electronic box thing he has at most of the shows I have been to.

I personally prefer more of his drone-y stuff, so the first part was quite good. The second part was more IDM-y if you will. But I can not complain, it was free!

While I was eating lunch this fairly attractive college-aged guy was making jokes about "fingering chicks" and drinking beer and he was surrounded by a bevy of girls laughing really, really hard and telling him how "hilarious" he is, but it was kinda obvious it was because they all found him hot. I wanted to walk by and shout, "DON'T TELL HIM HE'S FUNNY, THAT ONLY ENCOURAGES HIM AND THATS HOW WE GET DANE COOK".