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the_siobhan) wrote2003-05-31 07:01 pm
the_siobhan) wrote2003-05-31 07:01 pm
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falling uphill
So due to the pussies in the Ravonettes cancelling their show, I got to get in my introvert time in last night after all. Bliss.
(Does living in Toronto give me street cred now? "Yo' you think you Detroiters are tough with your drive-bys and your 8 Mile. Well, I live in Plague City!"
Can the Zombie Apocalypse be far behind?)
As a direct result of this, I can see the office floor and my to-do pile is all neatly filed in a single place waiting for action. It's not really any smaller, but being all in one place counts for something, right?
Right?
I also managed to go to the gym today, which makes me very happy and puts a big ol' dent in the I-hate-the-world mood I've been in lately. I found I can get my cardiac in if I stick to things I can hang onto, like bicycles and stairmasters. I crashed into the wall as soon as I got off the thing of course. But it's Toronto so I pretend like nothing happened and every body else pretends like they didn't notice.
I also came to the realization that it's been long enough since I've been in a smokey environment that any temporary environmental effects would have worn off by now. I'm finally going to have to quit kidding myself and face the fact that my lungs really are getting worse.
Well, I'm not happy about it by any means, but at the same time I know I'm getting off easy. I know people who have asthma attacks any time they do anything physically strenuous and I'm nowhere near that bad. So I'll try to stay out of smoke as much as I can, I'll talk to my doctor about it, and we'll see what happens.
I have to be one of the very few people who is looking forward to the non-smoking bylaw going universal next year.
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It's been very spring-like in Ontario for the last couple of weeks, going from clear and sunny to raining like a bastard and back again in a matter of hours. Everything alive in this corner of world is blindingly green, embarrassingly fertile and madly spunking all over the place.
Meanwhile, I've been reading all these posts from people on my friends list who live in England and there has been an awful lot of bitching going on about how hot it is over there. Out of curiosity, I went to the BBC weather page and looked up the current temperatures.
As a result, I have this to say to you.
Y'all are a bunch of pussies.
Some of you are coming to Toronto in August. You will be finding out exactly why it is that people in North America drink their beer so cold.
(Does living in Toronto give me street cred now? "Yo' you think you Detroiters are tough with your drive-bys and your 8 Mile. Well, I live in Plague City!"
Can the Zombie Apocalypse be far behind?)
As a direct result of this, I can see the office floor and my to-do pile is all neatly filed in a single place waiting for action. It's not really any smaller, but being all in one place counts for something, right?
Right?
I also managed to go to the gym today, which makes me very happy and puts a big ol' dent in the I-hate-the-world mood I've been in lately. I found I can get my cardiac in if I stick to things I can hang onto, like bicycles and stairmasters. I crashed into the wall as soon as I got off the thing of course. But it's Toronto so I pretend like nothing happened and every body else pretends like they didn't notice.
I also came to the realization that it's been long enough since I've been in a smokey environment that any temporary environmental effects would have worn off by now. I'm finally going to have to quit kidding myself and face the fact that my lungs really are getting worse.
Well, I'm not happy about it by any means, but at the same time I know I'm getting off easy. I know people who have asthma attacks any time they do anything physically strenuous and I'm nowhere near that bad. So I'll try to stay out of smoke as much as I can, I'll talk to my doctor about it, and we'll see what happens.
I have to be one of the very few people who is looking forward to the non-smoking bylaw going universal next year.
It's been very spring-like in Ontario for the last couple of weeks, going from clear and sunny to raining like a bastard and back again in a matter of hours. Everything alive in this corner of world is blindingly green, embarrassingly fertile and madly spunking all over the place.
Meanwhile, I've been reading all these posts from people on my friends list who live in England and there has been an awful lot of bitching going on about how hot it is over there. Out of curiosity, I went to the BBC weather page and looked up the current temperatures.
As a result, I have this to say to you.
Y'all are a bunch of pussies.
Some of you are coming to Toronto in August. You will be finding out exactly why it is that people in North America drink their beer so cold.
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After suffering with asthma for a few years, I have to join you with wishing for non-smoking bylaws.
(Temperatures)
Since I lived in Chicago most of my life, I do know the joys of extreme temperatures, but, as David said, the lack of air conditioning makes it seem a lot worse. My workplace doesn't have it and the shop is a corner one with full length plate glass windows facing west. Even with fans, it's quite sticky. Though, after surviving the heat wave of 1995 in Chicago (700+ dead), nothing seems bad.
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Was this a reference to my place of work? If yes, there are no draperies on the store windows.
My house is fairly cool all summer and we have yet to have to buy a fan. This is mostly due to the fact our house is mid-terrace.
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My workplace is also not air conditioned but I'm in this weird corner office where it only gets too hot about 2 days a year. And I can wear shorts & sandals if I like. (And suddenly I spend a lot of time in the OR suite making sure our scopes are being cleaned properly, something I won't do on pain of death the other 363 days of the year).