So all it does is rain. All the time. Except for when I bring my umbrella and special rain hat. Then it’s about 97 degrees and I lose the umbrella and rain hat. And I’ve been semi okay with this non-stop rain, now that I’m not having to get on a plane every other day to go somewhere that I might need to be saved and thus haven’t had to worry about airport delays. But let’s be honest. I’m really not okay with it at all. I need the weather gods to understand that this is only my second year on this coast and I still haven’t fully accepted all that winter entails, and so I feel that I’m more than overdue some good summer months.
I know everyone says New York is hell in the summer but I’m a firm believer in the “there’s no such thing as too hot” philosophy, if indeed it is a philosophy (actually, who’s available to teach that seminar? It will focus on topics as disparate as Palm Springs and the Maxim Hot 100 issue). Anyway I think it’s amazing that I’ve managed to type for this long about the weather and am still going but really what I wanted to address was not the heat or the rain but the fact that I bought this stainless steel water bottle the other day because I had spent far too much time feeling like a terrible person/enraging environmentalists with my incessant water bottle purchasing. See, I need to have a bottle of water on my person at all times. In terms of importance, it’s up there with, say, shoes. If I have it, I tend not to feel thirsty but if I don’t have it? I literally become parched like a person who’s trekked through the Sahara and can think of nothing but how much I need hydration. Anyway, when you’re running around the world with a water bottle on your person at all times, you tend to go through a lot of bottles and thus buy them by the case and thus the terrible person/enraging environmentalists feelings start up.
So I bought this stainless steel water bottle and was so proud of myself for filling it with my Brita-filtered water and then bringing it around the world with me. Just how proud was I? Well, proud enough to give that Brita a cleaning/filter replacement a week or so early when — well, I haven’t tended to be great about that whole filter replacing thing. Everything was good for about three days. And then the God damn thing started spilling water. And when I say spilling water, what I mean is drowning my purse and the contents in it with enough H20 to keep a family of goldfish. Earlier today, I thought I must be mistaken — that a lot of rain must have gotten in or someone spilled water in my purse on the subway — because how could this perfect looking thing that doesn’t show evidence of a leak anywhere do something like this? That was before it happened for a second time.
All of which is a long winded way of saying I’m probably going back to contributing to our nation’s landfill problem tomorrow, if not later tonight. Try and stop me if you dare!
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying
See, all that money in that purse is sucking that water right out of that bottle lol
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Just a thought, if the environmentalists are still getting at you after you ditch that stainless steel sieve of yours the better option might be a Nalgene bottle. They make some now that aren’t quite as huge and unwieldy as the originals, and I’ve beaten the hell out of mine without leaks.
Also, I know I’m still very green around here, but I’d be happy to volunteer at the interim professor for the “it can never be too hot” seminar until a more suitable veteran can take over. My slim creditials: I’ve lived most of my life in Texas, where I’ve learned to love the hell out of all kinds of heat (seriously, an 85 degree afternoon would feel like Aspen right now,) and I just recently finished college/grad school which probably involved more time in my fraternity house that I would have like, so I’m more than comfortable with the pages of Maxim, et al.
Anyways, just a humble offer. Keep on rockin’ Miss Anna B.
Well I cannot even imagine how difficult winter in NYC must be for someone who came from Sunny CA
The wet weather comes around sometimes
Back in 2003 it was even worse
Its always sunny on line with the Daily Alison
I have given up on going green
We use bottled water sometimes, I am taking a bottle with me today
Someone a lot smarter than me has to invent a way to turn all these bottles into a renewable energy source or something
Back to “Bought” I am only 60 pages away from writing some great reviews on it
NYC is lucky to have the Amazing Anna David here with us!
It’s been incredibly rainy in the northeast this spring & summer! I was sure we must have set a record, but the other day someone told me we’ve had other years with more rain. Hard to believe.
But I’m lovin’ the cool temps! It usually doesn’t get very hot here anyway – most summers we usually just get a few days over 90F. But this year it’s mostly been in the 70s and low 80s. It doesn’t get much better than that!
In case any of you haven’t heard, Officer Mike caught the guy who pulled the fire alarm a couple of nights ago. He was immediately booked into the local police station: http://tinyurl.com/naj7s7
It looks like the guy MAY have been roughed up a little, but here at the ADA we don’t ask questions. Mike gets the job done and that’s all we care about. Good job Mike!
Don’t they recycle in the city? Here in the Long Island suburbs, they take plastic bottles on recycle day. I don’t know what they do with them after that, but the implication is that they don’t simply get added to the landfill.
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That is of course what Coleridge had in mind when he wrote those lines.
“Water, water everywhere since all the bottles leaked …”
I’ve had similar issues with the travel mugs for coffee. Invariably I get the one that was not molded right so they leak at the seams when sealed tight. When not sealed tight they do not leak until of course trying to take a drink. The ones that don’t leak are not vented properly so when the cap is on a little tilt doesn’t seem to be enough to get the beverage out so I tilt my head back more, tilt the mug more and then receive a tidal wave of scalding hot coffee which I either swallow coughing and gasping or spit back into the cup. Of course the cup has a lid on it so the effect of such spitting just splashes my hand and face with the aforementioned scalding hot liquid. No more travel mugs for me.
And then Homer Simpson when rafting:
“Water water everywhere, so let’s all have a drink!”
Hey, it’s rough in the trenches. We can’t have people pulling fire alarms, might start a panic and then what? And good thing you guys don’t ask how I get the job done, just that it gets done. It’s amazing how much bruising that guy got from falling down the stairs on his own with no help from me. 6 times. Oh well, next time he’ll go pull pranks at Harvard or someplace not as potentially painful. With carpeted stairs.
It’s been raining here constantly as well. Had a decent day today but I’m quite sick of the almost constant downpours lately. I love the hot weather, in fact, going to Arizona for to work for 10 days at the end of the month, won’t have to deal with rain for a while at least. I hope it’s 100 every day.
As far as the water goes, I say carry a bottle and recycle. Can’t have all the important stuff our principal carries around getting soaked. Or, maybe we can get a crafty student to invent a wet/dry purse.
Mike
#dearprincipalshouldcarryawetanddrypursewiththeboughtbarcodeonit
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