There are a lot of things I dislike about summer -- particularly Houston summers, which last 9 months out of the year and aren't transitioned into through that fabled season called "spring." Unfortunately, that's where I tend to live through most of my three months away from school. It's sticky and humid and
hot. I break out from the humidity, and any makeup I try to put on to cover said breakout inevitably melts away in the heat. My hair becomes an instant frizzy mess before I even walk out the door. It's
hot. I try to dress in appropriately skin-baring outfits to gain some relief from sweating, but the sheer whiteness of my skin blinds onlookers if I step into a beam of sunlight. That same skin refuses to tan (not that I'd want it to, really -- I'm sure I'd look horrid), and I constantly have to put on sunscreen to avoid burning. It's
hot. My head is always overheated because my dark hair attracts that heat. I feel sluggish and murky and disgusting. It's
hot. We get earth-shaking thunderstorms and the power (and thus, the air conditioning)
always goes out at least twice a month and I can't stand it because it's
so damn hot in Houston.Today, the weather has been blissfully mild. However, as I glanced at the predicted low temperatures for Ohio this week -- mostly high 20's to mid 30's -- I found myself nearly tearing my hair out in lack-of-warm-weather frustration. I never thought I'd say this, but I could deal with a little bit of that Houston humidity if the thermometer would just inch its way into the 50's and 60's already. I love seasons, I love wintery weather, and I know I should be grateful that the temperature hasn't dropped to the painful-just-to-step-outside -20 of January... but after almost five months of walking around outside to get to classes with fifteen layers of clothing on my body and frigid wind slapping me in the face, spending my
spring break with a coat on, I've
had it. I'm ready to leave you behind, Winter -- I want beaches and bathing suits and sunglasses, sandals and shorty-shorts, picnics and quiet breezes. Please!!
If I don't get at least one day of relief this week I really might tear my hair out, and who wants to see a skinny pale girl walking around campus with a
bald patch and salty tears of weather-induced agony streaming down her cheeks like she'd just accidentally had her emergency can of pepper spray backfire in her face? Nobody, that's who.