Towelling Inferno
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Seems like just last year we had a summer and here it is again already. In the southern hemisphere, I’m a summer kind of guy. It gets hotter than Tokyo, yes, but it’s dry. Tokyo suffers from a particularly nasty form of summer in that it’s not just hot but humid… very humid. This is what does me in. You break a sweat just going into the kitchen to fix the next gin and tonic. It’s so sweaty I’m going through shirts like Elvis went through scarves during the Vegas years, merely touching them to my body before tossing them into the screaming audience of the laundry basket (a borrowed simile, but so apt).
Tokyo summers turn you against your loved ones and make you question the very idea of a benevolent deity. We don’t just get dog days, we get get stinky, mangy, flea-bitten, bad-tempered, unloved mongrel dog days that bite without provocation.
I just wasn’t made for this weather, and all the mugi-cha* in the world can’t help me.
* Mugi-cha = barley tea, which supposedly cools you down. Right.
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Posted to General Rants • 2002.07.12 (Fri) • 15:19
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Posted by Kurt 2002.07.13, 23:08
It doesn’t help one bit that mugicha, at least imho, tastes awful! We actually have two tea beverages in the fridge, mugicha for my wife and in-laws, and good ol’ kocha (black tea) for me. An (azuki bean) popsicles also provide an all-too-brief respite.
Posted by Jeff 2002.07.14, 05:32
I, too, am a summer sort of guy. And just like you I grew up in a hot, but dry climate (Southern California). And, just like you, I now reside in humidsville.
Tokyo<—>Washington, DC: twins separated at birth.
I think domestic and foreign policy here is affected by our weather.
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