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You asked for it.

shana — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:25:15 +0000

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.

Mark it.

shana — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:49:37 +0000

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.

at least it makes for stunning pictures.

shana — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:22:45 +0000

Springtime in Chicago

this is getting out of control.

shana — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:15:59 +0000

This is almost heated pants weather.

shana — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:47:43 +0000

Will be taking the bus to work today…

shana — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:24:25 +0000

Rules are rules.

41 hasn’t felt this cold in a long time

shana — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:11:50 +0000

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.

I’m ready.

shana — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:01:04 +0000

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.

Baby, it’s sharp icy daggers outside

shana — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:32:18 +0000

yeah, there’s a song nobody wrote.

hello, -30 wind chills.