98 Degrees

It's going to be killer hot today. 98 degree according to my morning weather dude.

I hate the heat. When it gets this hot, I usually treat it as a natural disaster. Grocery shopping completed at 8:45am. Jonah was sent to camp with a thermos of water. Sun screen in their hair line (not really). I'm pulling Jonah out of camp early, because I can't let him bake in an unairconditioned middle school and shadeless ball field all day. I think I'll take the kids to the 12:45 showing of Cars at the multi-plex. We saw it a few weeks ago, but they want to see it again. Then, maybe, in the late afternoon, we'll go to the swim club. It might be cool enough by that point, so we won't fry up like some fatty bacon in the sun.

All these evasive measures are eating into my two hours of morning work time, so I have to be short right now.

First of all, I am very much enjoying reading the comment section on boys and reading. There's a real tension between those who feel that I am destroying my boy's innate boyness by fiddling with his natural desires and those who feel that a little helpful nudging never hurt a kid. Before I got involved in the special education world a few years ago (thanks to Ian, age 4), I would have probably been closer to the natural approach. Now I'm more in the middle. Thanks to Joanne Jacobs for the link.

Second, I've been watching a lot of CNN for the past couple of days for info on Israel and Lebanon. No wise words from me here. This is one of those topics that I feel that you should hold your tongue unless you have to have first hand knowledge or have volumes of history reading under your belt. That's why I've been very much enjoying Allison Kaplan Sommer's account of things. My husband just sent me this link to some blogger crowing about the blogosphere's ability to cover breaking news with first hand accounts. Blog triumphantalism usually gives me a headache, but in this case, I think he is right.

Comments

[WendyW]

I'm in a similar situation re the weather. It's 86 here now, and I have to go out and do errands for the next 2 hours. Lucky me. Then I get my son from his un-air-conditioned preschool, then maybe I will pull my daughter early from her un-air-conditioned camp which is conveniently across the street. I have been half thinking of offering to her 3 camp friends' parents to take them in tomorrow afternoon. We have a small pool 2.5 feet high and I have a decent AC in the living room. I'll see what the camp is like today when I go pick her up.

Yes, I am supposed to be working, too, but life stuff just keeps coming up. I have a promotion dossier to compile and an article to finish. :P And I have to go to the grocery store to buy yet more cereal, which is the only thing my kids will eat lately. Fortunately, it has fiber and is fortified with vitamins.

[Mrs. Coulter]

Ugh. Hate the weather. It is too hot to do anything other than stay insider here too. Plus Lyra has the dreaded Summer Cold. Can I plug the worthwhile commentary on the Lebanese situation (and other international issues) here:

http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/

[Camera Obscura]

Don't move anywhere farther south or west, hon. Well, maybe straight west around the lakes. But no further.

Our heat indices will be above 105 F until Saturday. And I'm only half-way down the Mississippi.

[Allison]

Thanks, Laura

Linking the theme of your blog and of mine, at times like these in Israel, I'm glad I've got the part-time telecommuting job instead of the full-time demanding one.