Hey! No wonder we’re all miserably hot at my house—there’s a heat wave in California! Record highs! No fraudulent rolling blackouts, but still! Very hot!

This is what happens when you have no television and you never check local news or weather on the internet (even though you absolutely thought you would when you agreed to get rid of the television). You think, Gee, I guess I really hate summer! That’s peculiar. I wonder why I don’t remember hating summer any of the other twenty-odd years of my life? Maybe I only THOUGHT I liked summer because of the whole no-school-in-summer thing. Wait, that can’t be right, I haven’t been in school for sort of a long time now…But this is really miserable. I guess I just hate summer. Huh. That kind of sucks—I dislike a whole quarter of the year. And my birthday’s in the summer, too! Aw, man!

And then one day you’re scanning the Yahoo! news headlines, and bam! There’s you’re explanation, right there: Heat wave. California. Ah-HA! Turns out I DON’T hate summer. I only hate HEAT WAVES! So glad we clarified that.