Today I noticed that my cell phone and wristwatch are not chronologically in sync. My watch is, in fact, three full minutes behind my phone. Consequently, when I receive a text message which displays when the message was sent, it occasionally arrives a full one to two minutes ahead of the time on my watch. This means that these messages are not simply from another person thumbing away on their phone, they are actually transmissions from the future.
When David lived in Georgia, he and I would occasionally email one another. Because he lived in a different time zone (1 hour ahead of my residence), I joked that he too was living in the future.
The future, you see, is not all that different from the now. In fact, its more like a somewhat garbled version of the present (if my text messages are any indication). I quite like that; the Future = a more garbled version of now.
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Have I mentioned that I truly dislike cold weather. Seriously, does anyone living in S. LA like the weather we’re having right now? All you winter lovers, is this what you wait for all year-round? Grey, ugly, cold, wet, depressingness?
I’ll take summer and the merciless heat of our wonderful yellow sun any day over this stuff.
Really, life is better when its warm. Exhibit A:
Here I am in mid-August with my dad at a local road race. Look how happy I am. Smiling. Bronzed by the summer sun. Relaxed with family, bathed by the soft late-summer light.
I think I’m going to celebrate spring with much rejoicing this year.
I generally don’t mind winter, ’cause usually the clothes are pretty cute. But this wet nasty stuff is certainly not what I care to walk to class in any day of the year, especially when it’s cold.
word des. and just think how cute everyone will look in their stylish new summer and spring clothes once winter is over.
also, is it not true that spring and summer offer more possible clothing options, while the cold forces one into a uniform of limited garments?
You guys are exciting me for summer fun. Now I just want to tan. THANKS A LOT!
indeed, most people may automatically think spring and summer clothing is brighter, cheerier, and more stylish. and to some degree, that is true. on the other hand, however, winter offers the possibility of layering many different “cute” shirts, sweaters, coats, hats, scarfs, etc., whereas there is a limit to how much clothing one wears in the heat of the summer. each offers a chance for a different kind of “cute”, i suppose. i can’t really talk too much about being stylish though–i decided to wear pj pants today. hehe
well put, I hadn’t considered the possibility of ‘layers’ of style. also latent in my proposition is a kind of geographical determinism whereby people who live in warmer climes are inherently more fashionable than their northern neighbors.
this once again proves that i should not engage in conversation things i know nothing about (fashion)!
by the way, i find pj pants to be quite fashionable, though i hardly ever wear them…
Look all of you skin carcenoma loving crazys, I’m stepping in on the side of winter.
Here are the top ten reason winter rocks:
Brit Brit is forced to wear clothes
1) hot chocolate
2) camp fires
3) chilly noses to kiss
4) seeing your breath
5) pink cheeks
6) snuggling
7) Mardi Gras
9) burbon
10) No more football