First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Think Of Summer

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For me, it's a time for Anime Expo in Los Angeles (I believe it's the world's largest anime convention), baseball games, Canadian Football League games (they start their season [preseason] in June, then the regular season starts in July), going to theme/water parks, good food, cookouts, those things.

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The Canadian Football League - What We're Made Of

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Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

My mother, who grew up in the tropics, complaining about the weather.

What is summer?

Even though it was many many years ago both the song and the sentiment behind it.

Too much heat.

Cranking up the AC and trying to stay cool. Summers in MN get brutally humid.

Stinking hot weather, flies, Mosquitos, trying to keep your garden alive.

Dawn swimming at the beach.

the tan, tennis playing brunette with bright green eyes and a lightly freckled face i used to know. she was friends with someone i talked to a few times in junior high, and i first saw her in the beginning weeks of my freshman year of high school. i would hang around her clique of friends, some of whom would talk to me, and occasionally she would do the same. i distinctly remember her pronounced tan lines, no doubt due to all the time she spent in the sun during tennis practice (where her skin would most likely glisten in the midafternoon sun as sweat drops formed, from serve to serve), and her bra never seemed to fit just right.

she dated two people in that clique, that i remember, and i'm quite sure both of them thought i had some form of nonspecific mental illness or learning disability, which led them to keep a palpable distance from me that i imagine was even greater then the generic caution normally used with regular strangers.

i remember one lunchtime in 2011 when she was being chased by a friend, horsing around i recall, and the friend managed to undo all the buttons or straps holding the back of her shirt onto her firm, fit body, and it would have certainly fallen off entirely were it not due to her quick reflexes; well honed, i imagine, from her years playing tennis. i caught a glimpse of her relatively pale, lightly freckled back bisected by her bra just before she fixed her clothing.

she disappeared in the beginning of my sophomore year to go to florida, and she returned when we were seniors. i never interacted with her again, but i do remember passing by her in the hallways once, my gaze meeting hers by complete accident. her eyes, outlined by thick dark eyelashes, drilling into mine,

did she recognize me?

probably not. but what did it matter? she and i may as well have been from different planets.

later that year i found myself running into her friend, M, just after school as she was going to her car. we struck up a brief conversation and as it was happening, i was surprising myself at how much my social skills had improved since those freshman years, which seemed so long ago, when she and her friends would laugh at my antics and tolerate me, even welcome me into their home in one case, but nonetheless keep their distance as though they feared i would suddenly snap and attack them.

and then i found myself talking to her as though we were....on the same level?

could it be? someone, who understands me...who accepts me and realizes that i am more than a freak good for a laugh and little more.

i have never seen the brunette since, and i don't know if it matters anymore.

swimming

wishing for it to be over.

How much heat & humidity there is that time of year in Louisiana

too hot
bugs

3 months vacation:
Starting out, beautiful green vibrant paradise.
Later on, hot sticky glaring purgatory.

Hot weather and free time

It's the first day of summer today!

My first thought was - cyclone season.