afternoon

From my porch i look out on the sunbaked world, quietly enjoying the looming heat of summer. This is what i have waited for all winter long, what i've desired since the beginning of this very damp spring. I close my eyes and i can still feel the molecules of sunlight streaming through my eyelids. I am already developing sandal lines along my ankles and toes. soon i'll have little patches of tanned skin popping out from the ghost images of my sandals , carved by the uv of a perfect blue sky.
Today has been relaxed. Like lizards in the desert, we hid indoors through out the heat of the day, only emerging once the sun began to set. With all the shades closed my house does truely begin to resemble a cave. Mostly the heat doesn't bother me. I've been walking to work and back the last while in an attempt to drop some weight. I've noticed that the heat bothers me far more when in my car than when i'm walking in it. Strange. somehow moving makes it better.
Think i'm getting sick though. Throat has been sore on and off today. Have been drowning in orange juice and ginger tea trying to stave off a summer cold. Made a good spaghetti sauce with a ton of garlic so maybe that will help.
The drama at work seems to be coming to a fever pitch. There have been soap opera quality break ups and triangles. A general work function has been slashed and combined with the company sponsored day at the fair. years before this didn't happen because the call center hours don't really work well for going to the fair. I think tho what's really got people angry is that a bunch of people took vacation time to go but the system screwed up and gave too many people time off so it revoked all of the vacation time for that day. Honestly it would just have been better to tell people that our summer even has been canceled and leave the fair out of it. might have been taken better. I just try to float along.
well off to bed. Gotta be up early for the trek to work tomorrow.