Cold Snap
Have I talked in the past about how hot it is here? I'm not sure if I have mentioned it........But it's hot. Like blazing hot. Like I had to teach Pedro what the word "swass" meant. [Ed note: Mom, 'swass' is what happens when it's so hot your butt is sweaty] Like I was all showered and fresh the other morning and then swung my backpack on my shoulder ready to go to class and suddenly I smelled like a lumberjack stuck on a job in the woods with no soap for 15 days. Then I maniacally searched everywhere for the offending smell because I had literally just put my deodorant on -- okay fine it's aluminum free hippie deodorant, but still --- and clean clothes, but the smell was just awful and would be terribly offensive to mis compañeros franceses, brasileños, britanicos y americanos. (And we all know that I am in sore need of friends! I can't risk alienating even the annoying, interrupting know-it-all American) I had to find the source of my funk or take another shower!
Well, after a thorough smelling search, I found it. Reader, it was my body odor that had sunk into the straps of my backpack from all my days of schlepping around this town in the obscene heat!!!!!!!! So it's that hot (also I'm aware I need to research some new deodorants).
So why is it that I was a little bummed to wake up to a chill in the air and cool breezes this morning? We had to run, squeaking out "Oh my god, it's cold!" from cave to cave. Because I like sitting in a sun dress on the patio and drinking a cold glass of something at 11 pm. I'm human. But I have to welcome the seasons...I haven't really lived in the seasons since I moved away from the Midwest almost 20 years ago. I'm going to embrace the cold snaps, the precipitation in all its forms and the coziness that comes along with them. So long summer and offensive smells! See you in April (and hopefully then I'll be armed with a stronger aluminum free deodorant!)
Here I am sitting with my swass. I had to stand up and walk backwards to the bathroom so no one would notice.
Well, after a thorough smelling search, I found it. Reader, it was my body odor that had sunk into the straps of my backpack from all my days of schlepping around this town in the obscene heat!!!!!!!! So it's that hot (also I'm aware I need to research some new deodorants).
So why is it that I was a little bummed to wake up to a chill in the air and cool breezes this morning? We had to run, squeaking out "Oh my god, it's cold!" from cave to cave. Because I like sitting in a sun dress on the patio and drinking a cold glass of something at 11 pm. I'm human. But I have to welcome the seasons...I haven't really lived in the seasons since I moved away from the Midwest almost 20 years ago. I'm going to embrace the cold snaps, the precipitation in all its forms and the coziness that comes along with them. So long summer and offensive smells! See you in April (and hopefully then I'll be armed with a stronger aluminum free deodorant!)
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| I'm sure no one is surprised to see that Leo immediately leapt at the chance to put on his full Fall ensemble. |
Here I am sitting with my swass. I had to stand up and walk backwards to the bathroom so no one would notice.
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