A Bug's Life

And I am thinking the usual English thoughts about how hot and sticky it is. I'm quite good with heat, I like it when it's dry and baking and you drink pints and pints of water and your skin stays dry as a bone. I ♥ Arizona. But when it's humid, there's no breeze and your lungs believe you're breathing underwater, that's what I find hard to handle. And sitting completely still and calm, wearing minimal clothing, while perspiration still beads at your hairline and runs down your neck and the sides of your face, that's just uncomfortable and unpleasant.

For the last couple of years I've had my hair cut quite short in the summer, but this last half-year I've been growing it for a change. I know what it was like when it was longish and straight before, but I don't know how it will be now it's gone curly. But it's so hot! It's not quite long enough to tie back, to get it off my temples and the back of my neck. I would go for a haircut now, but I'm sure in 6 weeks I'll be glad of the length, and in Edinburgh in February it will be handy to keep my ears warm. Resist! Resist the snippage!
EDIT: I have two ponytails in a hi/low configuration. This keeps me cooler, but is probably not my best look :-)

I bought a necklace from elisem a few weeks ago, and it arrived today. It's lovely, very silver and black and sparkly, with silver wire twiddles everywhere, but it definitely has winter in it. I may have to buy some new tops to go with it :-) The 10-year-old convention t-shirt aesthetic I so often slip into is very easy to wear, but it has its limitations.

"Buses up to every 10 minutes," the sides of the Cambridge Citi buses, and their bus-stops, proudly proclaim.

"This is great," you might think, "the time between buses is a maximum of 10 minutes, often less!" Over the next forty minutes I managed to rotate the appealing interpretation of the phrase into an alternative that is also true: the frequency of buses is a maximum at 'every 10 minutes', but the frequency is often less. Much less.

I have always had trouble remembering what the plural of "bus" is, so for my last post I looked it up in the dictionary. It's "fleet" Predominantly "buses" in the UK, "busses" in the US. That ought to have made its way into long-term memory now.

While I had the dictionary out, I thought I'd check on a pair of words that I often get confused: solipsism and solecism. Could it be any more ironic that "solecism" means "a mistake of grammar or idiom; a blunder in the manner of speaking..."

Oh, I have a high life, counting purported buses and looking things up in dictionaries. Can I stand the excitement or will I have to go and have a bit of a lie-down? :-)