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It's the same here. I was out anyway, so I stopped by the new deli (New York Style, incidentally, though I've yet to try the liver or tongue) and got some egg salad. Of course, with this migraine, I may not need to eat today anyway...

The heat makes me so sick. It's why I continue to put up with New England winters: even a slightly warmer climate would be too much summer for me.

P.S.: I just finished watching all the available eps of Avatar. How did I overlook this show for so long?

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AVATAR!!
My brother talked about the show for the longest while, and I kept making fun of it. I mean, he also tended to go on and on about Dragonball Z. But once I started watching I got completely hooked. Season 2 is just sublime. I have it all on my iPod, pull out random eppies to watch while commuting.
What do you think? Fave eppies? Fave characters?

Weather-wise, I much prefer being bombarded by random blizzards than by random heatwaves. Srly, it's just too much. When it's cold one has to keep moving, whereas the heat just helps promote my overall laziness.

And have you started with the writing yet? :)

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"Boomerang! You do always come back!" Srsly, the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. I'm laughing just thinking about it.

I like the random, hybrid animals, too. When they go to Ba Sing Se, and are all mystified that the Earth King's new pet is just a bear? Gold. I especially like the penguins.

Characters? They're all kinda "seen it before": the Mother Bear, the Bad Guy Trying To Make Good, the Comic Relief...but they're complex and original enough that I like them. I think Iroh and Toph are my favorites.

I haven't started writing yet; still trying to pick a character or even a fandom. I've been reading the entries from the original challenge for inspiration. I don't want to be all maudlin, though it would be easy. I'd like to try to be funny, so I'm contemplating doing a letter from Bender. We'll see...

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"Boomerang! You do always come back!"
All the snippets of that episode with Sokka are golden ("the meat and sarcasm guy"). It's just a funny show that works just as well for kids as it does for grown-ups.

A Bender letter would be neat. She's running the challenge until August, so no pressure. :) I've scribbled down some stuff, but I'm also fighting my damndest not to make it all weepy.

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I don't know how familiar you are with Buffy, but check out the letters from Mayor Wilkins at the challenge link. They're creepy, and kinda funny (though none of them really capture his personality), but not weepy. Writing a letter from a bad guy would be a way around the weepies, now that I think of it...

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That is true. I think I'll just hustle out Harry's letter to Thomas this evening. I'm spending way too much scratching stuff out in my notebook.

That is, if I'm not made a victim to heatstroke. :/

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OT: you have some icons that I love. Are they mostly gankable?

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Course! Just give credit to the maker(s) if I have 'em listed.

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sometimesdee.livejournal.com

Discworld icon love! Can I steal it? It's not the heat that's killing us; it's the humidity. I spent four hours at the beach because it was too damned hot to do anything else.

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It's gankable. Just credit lady_twatterby (and check out her other Discworld iCons)

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faedrake.livejournal.com

I'd give a few IQ points right now for some sunshine! We'll be lucky if we hit 60 today, in this God-awful drizzle. I had to cover some of my plants, as the temps threatened to go below 40 last night. Sure, I can bundle up, but I feel trapped in my own home.

Send 10 degrees over to the Pacific Northwest, will ya? :)

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We need to switch climates, man! I would love some drizzle-plagued 50 degree weather. That's my element right there. If I could send you something, I would. Believe me. :)

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orpheus78.livejournal.com

*makes some cold lemonade for

fredericks*

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That sounds very good right about now. But it's getting overcast as heck so maybe thunderstorm? ::fingers crossed::

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maybe you'll get our thunderstorms? don't they move in a southwesterly direction?

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I have no idea. They haven't manifested yet, anyway. I think late-day thunderstorms are some of the best things about summer.

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meee too! i missed them so badly when i was living in portland. it just doesn't thunderstorm there. DDDD: that was the one thing that didn't feel like "home."

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Really? Aww. I find the whole idea of living in the Pacific Northwest fascinating. I really liked Seattle when I went to visit. I can do without the thunderstorms if I get mildish weather and lots of rain. Then again, you don't get that rush of warm air and the sharp smell of ozone without thunderstorms, do you? I remember when I was younger pressing my face against the screen panel on my window as the skies opened up...I sort of do the same thing now, but I'm more "grown-up" about it. :)

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see, i thought the weather was "mildish" too before i lived in portland. then i realized that even though it rarely gets down to freezing temperatures, it's so damp all through fall, winter, and spring that the cold seeps right into your bones and doesn't leave until summer. your towels never dry, and this gross pink mold grows on everything in the bathroom. none of the older houses have any insulation, so it's difficult and ridiculously expensive to properly heat any rooms. thus, most people i know hardly ever turned on their heat. on the very rare occasions when there is snow (and two winters in a row when i lived there, we had ice storms), the entire city shuts down.

i ended up just enduring through bone-chilling dampness for four years in a row. it's like i didn't get properly warm until i moved to minnesota, one of the coldest places in the US in the wintertime—but it's a dry cold. AND people turn on their heat there. XD

that said, portland is still the most beautiful place i've ever lived. wintertime there is SO GREEN. and the summer weather, at least, is absolute perfection.

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Aww, a green winter? I like the snows and all. And the whole mold thing? Not helping so much with my love of Portland. I guess I'll stick with Seattle.

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sometimesdee.livejournal.com

Chinese restaurant-style "homemade" lemonade? ;P

...wait. Do they even have that in California, or is it a localized Chinese food thing, like getting side orders of plantains?

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orpheus78.livejournal.com

I don't know if we have Chinese style lemonade here, but we have country time lemonade which according to The Simpsons has never had anything close to a lemon in it. ;)

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man, seriously. i've been drinking beck's like WATER these days, which wouldn't be so bad except that it's a hell of a lot more expensive than water. we've got some rain here, at least. which just means it's about 5º cooler and 100% humid instead of 85%... at least we haven't gone above 90. yet. it's not like we're that far away from you, either.

sometimes i wonder how i survived 18 years of my life with no a/c in a south-facing bedroom. just out of curiosity, have you ever had heatstroke?

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I don't think so, but one time in college (don't all funky stories start out that way?) I decided to ride this 16 mile bike trail in one go, so I ended up doing 32 miles with no stops on a moderately warm but extremely sunny day. This being the first time I'd attempted something of that length I sorely underestimated how much hydration and fuel I needed to finish it up. When I got back to my dorm I chugged, like, a half gallon of water, left the rest of the jug by my bed, and fell unconscious for 4 or 5 hours. No nausea, no vomiting, no burnt skin (I'd worn a white shirt) but I was a little lightheaded and dizzy. Not the sanest or safest thing I've ever done, but at least it was relatively mundane.

And I interrupt my rambling to ask: why do you ask? Do you think you have heatstroke?

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oh, not now. but i'm pretty sure i did have it once. it was back in high school. i was at cedar point (you know, the amusement park in OH?) with my girlfriend at the time, her sister, and her sister's friend. i'm not sure how it even happened, honestly, though maybe i wasn't drinking enough fluids?

anyway, we were waiting in line for a roller coaster in the awful heat for a few hours and i started to feel more and more shitty. i ended up sitting down on the ground when the line wasn't moving. but by the time we got to the top, i started to feel like i was going to throw up and i didn't have the energy to stand. one of the workers gave me some water to drink and his hat dipped in cold water to put on my neck. my girlfriend was super pissed off because she wanted to ride the roller coasters together with me, but i felt like i couldn't even walk. which pretty much sums up our relationship right there. it wasn't until it started to rain and the weather cooled off that we realized i had a fever. then she was nice to me again. typical. we ended up sitting in my car in the parking lot for awhile with the air conditioning on until i felt a little better, but i still had to drive all of us home from fucking sandusky to detroit afterward. i probably should have gone to the hospital, right? but i sure as hell wasn't supposed to be in ohio, so i didn't want to get in trouble with my parents! X__X

32 miles, that's CRAZY! i guess you probably trained for it, though? shit, i'm glad you were okay! O_O

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my girlfriend was super pissed off because she wanted to ride the roller coasters together with me, but i felt like i couldn't even walk. which pretty much sums up our relationship right there.
Damn. Yeah. Not so good.
Eh, you didn't collapse and you got some water in you and then you cooled down, so it was all good. Just next time keep water, sunblock, and a UV blocking umbrella.

I didn't train. I'd been working out pretty regularly for at least two hours a day at that point, and I thought I was le shit. I did the trek a couple of times after that, but I took little breaks every so often.

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darker-one.livejournal.com

We've got the heat wave going on here too. I was forced to eat a lot of the candy you sent me, just so it wouldn't melt. It was a sacrifice, but one that I was willing to make. ;)

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