Today is Audience Participation Day (and also Listen To James Whine Day).  Most of you who know me are aware of my not-quite-hatred-but-we-definitely-don’t-kiss relationship with hot weather and this week surely makes me wonder the wisdom of moving south.  Career-wise it was the right thing to do at the time but when the town you live in defies the laws of physics and has humidity in the 1000-2000% range, it makes me wonder what others see attractive about hot, sticky weather that I don’t.

For those of you lifelong southerners, or perhaps you’re a northerner with dreams of living in a warm weather city, what exactly is appealing about days where the temperature exceeds your internal body temperature?  Is there anything attractive about not being able to move outside without sweating or having breathing difficulties?  I guess I fail to see the advantage during weeks like this over a day where a refreshing blanket of snow  makes everything seem new again, not to mention the air is always fresher in winter.

Now, let’s not compare the upper 80 degree temperatures of blissful exotic locales like a Caribbean island.  I’m talking about cement islands that also double as Humidifiers and Smog Machines like Houston and Atlanta and other big cities in the dirty south where it reaches into the 90s with regularity, sometimes for weeks at a time.  Los Angeles, for all its smog, at least has temperate weather and access to an ocean, not to mention it's hard to break into the porn biz if you're not living there.  What’s the appeal elsewhere?  I can understand living in these areas for certain periods of time but I can’t ever imagine retiring in this region.

Before you try to convince me that warm weather is better than cold, read the link provided at the beginning.  In the meantime, I’ll ride out the heat wave this next week indoors.  October can’t come soon enough.