52/433: Slow

I still don't have the cadence of summer, though its weather has arrived early. I checked the temperature at ten o'clock and it was cool enough to open the windows and turn on the fan, but then I forgot to do it until just a few minutes ago. So it's still 79 degrees in here, and it could have been down to 75 by now had I been focused. I could also have been fixing dinner now, instead of waiting for the kitchen to get cooler before firing anything up. I'm so getting a whole bunch of fruit next time I shop. I need stuff to not cook.

I spent a lot of time Tuesday watching a video that took me back to the late 1960s, when I used to spend nights listening to a Los Angeles FM station that played less popular new music. It was the first place I ever heard Gordon Lightfoot, and last night I came across this recording of one of his early songs that I hadn't heard for decades. Now I'm temporarily obsessed with it. Damn, those were the good days. I think I knew it, even then.

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52/434: Raw

Not so hot Wednesday, but I still haven't cooked any dinner anyway. It's gotten to be too much bother. When cool weather comes back next fall I suspect I still won't cook anything most nights. Maybe microwave something frozen, but that's about as energetic as I want to get anymore. By the time I get something elaborate cooked I've used up all my energy and don't feel like eating it.

I'm getting through the first week with mere substitute donuts, and expect the second week, when even those substitutes will run out, could be very unpleasant indeed. I don't think I've even got a package of refrigerated cinnamon rolls to fix and not even frozen pastry like pop tarts. There's a cake mix I could bake, but I dread having the oven on in this weather. I wish somebody would come up with a decent microwaveable cake mix.

Oh, forgot to open the windows and turn on the fan again. Probably because it was so much less hot, and the apartment didn't get uncomfortable enough to light a fire under my inattentive ass. I'll do that now, and maybe make a ramen bowl.