Don't wanna go now.

[waitingonsunday]

11. "Angeles," Goldroom, 2011.

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High summer. Sunrise already heavy with humidity. By my early-afternoon lunch break, the air in my car was almost thick enough to swim in, hot enough to turn my jewelry molten against my neck and wrist in a split-second. Sitting in the living room with no AC at night, I'd feel beads of sweat tickling their way down

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[bib_specialist]

When I was younger, I liked snow, but now I've come to hate it, especially shoveling it. I also hate winter because of the danger of slipping on ice. And the cold, I've always been sensitive to cold. I don't know if I can continue living in the north.

[waitingonsunday]

I'm thankful I never really had to shovel snow. It was one of the few household chores my dad and brother took upon themselves...or allowed to be forced upon them. I've always been sensitive to cold, too, and I think part of it is the anemia, but I don't know. I noticed I was less sensitive to it as I gained weight, but now that I'm pretty low again, it bothers me a lot.

Aren't your steps outside, too? Don't slip on that ice, man.

[bib_specialist]

Yeah, every time it snows I have to shovel 2 flights of stairs, then the driveway. It sucks.

[waitingonsunday]

Just curious, why is the driveway your job, considering you don't have a car? Is it just an agreement you came to even you moved in?

[mac_arthur_park]

Moving from California to Virginia as a kid, I LOVED snow. We didn't get much. Just enough to look pretty and maybe go sledding a few times a winter (well, the other kids went sledding. I ran into trees. A lot.).

Then I was stupid enough to get married and move to the mountains of Virginia (8 days with no power, no way out, and two kids under the age of two. I don't recommend it). AFter that, life took me to Indiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

When I finally landed in Chapel Hill, I scoffed at people who complained of the cold when it dipped under 60. Six years later, and I am one of those people.

So, yeah. Fuck snow.

[waitingonsunday]

I'm kind of becoming one of those people, too. I snicker when people who were born and raised here say in all seriousness that they think it might snow soon when it's, like, 55 degrees out, but I can't laugh too much, because I haaaaaaaaate it, snow or no snow. Especially now, in a house without central heating. God, it sucks.

My boyfriend, native North Carolinian, is like a little kid when it snows. He'll pull me out of bed at 2 A.M. to go play in it, he does not care.

[richaarde]

Snow is pretty. If I don't have to dig my car out of it, I kind of don't even mind it.

Of course, if I wake up to find my car buried under a mound of snow, I am not pleased.

[waitingonsunday]

If I can look at it from somewhere warm and know that I won't have to go out in it, I like it a lot better. But even then, I'm worried about all the people I care about who might be out on the road. I can't win! Or maybe snow can't.

[waitingonsunday]

Thanks so much, both for reading and for commenting. I really do appreciate it!

[flummoxicated]

I had the opposite growing-up experience with weather. Started in Ohio, family moved to Florida when I was 12. Between the culture shock and the heat, I couldn't wait to leave.

Yeah, for snow you really have to have a separate wardrobe to deal with it.

[waitingonsunday]

Are you back in Ohio now? My dad grew up in Johnstown, a little place northwest of Columbus. When we lived in Indiana, we'd drive there occasionally on the weekends to visit my grandpa. We'd always get to Cincinnati after dark and I thought seeing the big city all lit up at night was one of the coolest things ever. This is essentially all I know of Ohio, though.

And, yeah, I'm prepped and ready for winter now, even here. For instance! I'm currently wearing three pairs of pants.

Your icon reminded me that I keep seeing commercials for his last four episodes. :( Stepheeeeen, nooooooooo.

[flummoxicated]

Yep, I currently live in Youngstown, spent my formative years in Akron. So NE Ohioan. And I went to Purdue so I've spent time in Indiana too :)

[waitingonsunday]

Ah, I'm pretty much entirely unfamiliar with the rest of the state. I do have a friend who teaches in Youngstown. I'm not sure if he grew up there or what school he teaches at...haha, why am I even mentioning this?

It's funny, for as long as I lived in Indiana, I never saw much of the state. I've become more familiar with it NOT living there, going back and forth a few times from Indianapolis to Evansville and Evansville to Louisville. It's exactly the most interesting place to be to most people, I suppose, but I have a very soft spot for it.