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The Single Summer Lift
Before moving south to L.A. with its unending warm weather, I’d feel wistful with the start of summer. In San Francisco, where I lived, July and August were shivery months. As couples bolted the city for romantic weekend getaways to the wine country, I huddled alone in my apartment by the heater. Summer exacerbated being single. Not anymore. Relentless sunny skies can have its drawbacks (barely), but it’s a relief to live in a place from which you don’t need to flee.
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I had that feeling in spring. The days started getting longer and after I finished doing everything I wanted to do in a day, the sun was still out and I found myself having nothing to do and nowhere to go. Then I got used to the days being longer. And then of course wedding season started.
So funny!
I didn’t realize that San Francisco was chilly in the summer. Learn something new everyday!
The Bay Area has so many micro climates. During the summer in SF, it can be 60 degrees, and across the Golden Gate Bridge, it’s 80.
I know the feeling of summer isolation, too — although for the exactly opposite weather reasons! The summer here in NYC is so God-awfully hot & humid that I find myself shuttling from air-conditioned apartment to air-conditioned cab to air-conditioned office and back again. I don’t want to walk around the city (which I happily do in all other seasons, rain, shine, snow, you name it…), and over the course of the summer find myself staying inside with my books and Netflix!
The weather is so rarely inclement in Los Angeles, you can’t use it as an excuse to hybernate. Cozying up with Netflix and books on a humid summer day sounds delightful.