Today’s useful foreign-language phrase comes to you courtesy of global warming:

il fait chaud - It’s hot.

I live in a part of the US that used to be a rain forest. In fact, most of the plants, animals, and hominids here believe it still is. Which is why none of said beings are in any way, shape or form prepared for the kind of 90+ degree heat wave we’ve been experiencing for the past three days. Most folks around here are wandering about in a sweat-soaked daze, panting in astonishment.

We’re setting up our feeble fans in our homes which of course don’t have any a/c because why would we want to buy something we’d use once every five years?

We’re drinking water until we pee the bed.

We’re discovering this new-fangled product called sunscreen.

We’re making up excuses for spending 6 hours in the grocery store (“I couldn’t find the lettuce.”).

We’re watching such oscar-contenders as Superman Returns in the theater 5 times in a row.

We’re cranky, since we’re not so much sleeping at night as rolling around in soggy sheets in a doze for 4 hours, which is all the “night” we get this time of year, being so far north.

We’re watching our lawns and gardens slowly bake into straw-like ghosts of the juicy flora they once were.

I never thought I’d say this about sunshine in Seattle, but…

Ceci suce. - This sucks.

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