Its Back

Well, last week was winter… and then, literally overnight, the season changed. And the summer heat is back with a vengeance.

But at least the change in seasons means that:

THE BEACH IS BACK!

Actually, I have decided that September is a delightful month. Hot, sundress wearing, beach going temperatures during the day, and then a light sweater, maybe use a blanket, cool at night.

However, unfortunately, in addition to all this delightfulness:

The bugs are back. I forgot about the bugs. I have gotten more mosquito bites in the last week then all winter. And last night I woke up to a cockroach crawling up my inner thiegh. Iraque had made me watch No Country for Old Men right before bed, so I awoke with a start, sure that the tickling on my leg was a mushroom haircut man coming with a pressure gun to kill me. I was in fact happily surprised by the little roach I found instead. Soon we will have fat white spider bugs the size of my hand scurrying around the place.

The constant sweating is back.

The constant sunscreen slathering is back.

As a result, the zits are back.

The “teacher, you look ugly because you have zits on you face,” and then students proceeding to try to touch the zits on my face before I swiftly smack their hands away, is back.

Oh, and there is one new development. Since I now have the glorious my-sized refrigerator, I am not suffering from tepid beverages. Well, except that now I am not only the community fish keeper, but apparently also the community cold water supplier, so passers-by literally leave me high and dry. But what am I going to do, deny the poor hot sweaty children and teachers water. No. Instead I hide a secret stash of cold beverages in the back left corner of the fridge behind my big bag of lettuce. That way, even if the water runs dry, I have my own seemingly contraband means of beating the heat.