~ The Heat is On ~

It must be two hundred degrees. The heat kept me awake last night, gave me heat exhaustion this weekend, and is preventing me from doing that which I want to do. On Saturday, I had had plans to go on a road ride with my new friend with whom I share a given name, but she seemed to think that it was too hot to ride. So I went alone. I was about seven miles out when I realized that my front tire was not adequately pressurized. I was unable to determine the cause of the lack of pressure, so I pumped it up and continued to ride. A few miles later, I realized it was low again. I rode until I located a shady area to sit and change tubes. This process was tiring for me, as I barely have the strength in my arms to utilize my portable bike pump to inflate a tube to 80psi. But I completed the task and continued my loop. By the time that I had hit the halfway point, at which I turn back, I was surprisingly worn out and ready to be done. Which was handy, because I had a good fifteen miles to ride home. I was miserable. It was so hot that I felt that I would collapse and I drank all of my two water bottles well before I was done. But I made it home after what seemed like a forever amount of time and survived.

Anyway, I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time all by my lonesome. For my birthday, I bought myself two knitting books which have been providing me with inspiration for the act of knitting. I am over halfway through with a pair of appendage warmers that I am knitting in a cheap Red Heart variegated yarn. With them, I intend to warm my arms in a fugly sort of wooly way. And by "wooly", I mean "acrylic".

Last night, I spent a good hour and a half reading celebrity magazines at my own personal library. I flipped through about four magazines, fascinated. By the end of my intellectual experience, however, I determined that it wasn't the best use of my time. I surmised this based on the fact that in each of the magazines, I found the exact same photographs and gossip of celebrities. Which means that each time that I cracked open a magazine, hoping for new information, it was merely the same old same old. Pity. Granted, the focus in some of the "articles" was different..for example, in one magazine, I read a detailed comparison and contrast of celebrity tanning techniques. And in another, I perused an article about attractive bikini beach posture. You know, cutting edge information that I need to know.

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