Chris McNerney, Production Assistant

As I lay sweltering in bed last night, I had extra cause to ponder heat and the weather in general. Indeed usually I try to ignore the weather as best I can…until the rain is literally hitting me on the head or the wind pushes me over that one time in Phoenix. Mother Nature is a powerful and cantankerous ol’ character, and I’ve learned that when you cannot change a person you can at least ignore her… so that her effect is somewhat mitigated and she does not get the satisfaction of your visible discomfort. If like me you ever had a chain-smoking grandmother who accused you of cheating when you beat her at scrabble (I was 12, grandma), you will know what I mean about ignoring a force of nature you cannot change. Usually oblivious oblivion is my best response to implacable Mother N and my relatives as well.

But as I mentioned at the top of this blog, last night was just too darn hot. The type of hot where your ceiling fan just circulates warm air away from you and then back at you. The type of hot where you wonder why you did not buy an air conditioner, before you remember you were too lazy to drag it to your apartment and up all those winding flights of stairs. The type of hot where your sheet is another layer of skin, it sticks to you so.
So what to do is this lamentable situation of weather forced into your awareness, fully displaying the spectrum of its discomfort? What to do when you cannot ignore the hot? Ladies and gentlemen, I do not know. Perhaps there is no answer but to grin and bear it as best you can.

I got no good sleep last night. I woke up ever hour on the hour. I guess this blog is for those who suffered as I did last night. Let’s commiserate! For you see, with Mother Nature, last night I learned that when it rains, you will get wet, when it is hot you will sweat (and have a limbo sleep not dreaming but not fully awake), and even if you wish to ignore her power, sometimes you just can’t ignore her heat.