Posted by shana on Jun 21, 2009 in
weather alert I could see my breath on the way to work as late in the month as June 16th. For real. My buddy at work, Bea, she told she had never met anyone so obsessed with seeing their breath. I tried to explain that it was not the phenomenon of visible breath itself that attracted my attention so much what it indicated about the current weather situation – June 16, it’s cold out. See-your-breath cold out. I did talk about it a lot, I guess. I talked about it because it was interesting, because I like the weather, and because it was something to talk about. I sit chairside with people while their mouths go numb so we can drill their tooth out, we’ve got to talk about something neutral! But just because I talked about it a lot doesn’t mean I wanted it to end. And it certainly doesn’t mean I wanted it to get hot out.
Saturday, it finally felt like June here in Chicago. It was hot. Ice cream melted instantly. Eggs fried on the sidewalk. Mac and I took a walk to the bookstore, and the air was slow, sweaty, sticky, gross. I was slow, sweaty, sticky, gross. I turned to him and said, “ok, summer, we did it. I’m ready for winter now.”
Mac’s gaze remained steady on the hazy horizon. ”Nope,” he said, “I could go another week or so.”
Break out your sundresses, kids. It’s (finally… finally?) summer.
Tags: Chicago, weather, wishful thinking
Posted by shana on Jun 6, 2009 in
blog status,
weather alert June 6, 2009.
Chicago, Illinois.
Shana and Mac are at an art fair in Hyde Park.
It is so cold out that Shana can see her breath.
Also, the blog is back.
June 6.
Mark it.
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Posted by shana on Mar 29, 2009 in
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Posted by shana on Mar 28, 2009 in
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Posted by shana on Mar 27, 2009 in
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Posted by shana on Mar 24, 2009 in
weather alert Rules are rules.
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Posted by shana on Feb 12, 2009 in
weather alert I have a Chicago Tribune news feed on my home page, among other things. Yesterday, after a lovely bike ride home from work, I opened up my internt browser and saw the following headline:
There was, somewhat ironically, an actual article attached to that headline, instead of just a picture of the beach and a temp reading. But I didn’t read it. I don’t think whoever wrote that headline actually wanted us to.
Rohn also wanted to go outside and play.
Ah yes, it was beautiful. Shirt sleeves and warm breezes sitting by the lake at sunset…
(no snow!)
We knew the weather gods were just teasing us. We knew it wouldn’t last. But wow, those 30mph rainy winds this morning sure hit hard.
Tags: weather, wishful thinking
Posted by shana on Jan 27, 2009 in
weather alert The piles of frozen, weeks-old snow chunks on the sidewalk are covered in crusty yellow shooter holes from the little booty-footed doggies of the neighborhood. We need more snow. Or… or maybe we need it to be April. Yeah…
I was at the grocery store yesterday and they had potted flowers: daffodils, crocuses, even tulips. I bought some daffodils in a little yellow pot. It felt great. I’m looking ahead. But tonight I went out without a hat. It did not feel so great. Oh well.
Here are some more winter pictures for you: icicle art in the courtyard and some lake-side shots from the bike path along the lake (I braved the wind on that one “warm” day last week and took the lake path home). The sand mixed with the freezing waves and made frozen upside-down drip castles on the shore. Pretty cool.
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Posted by shana on Jan 15, 2009 in
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yeah, there’s a song nobody wrote.
hello, -30 wind chills.
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