Friday Five: June 25, 2021
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brin_bellway[arguably cw: illness, food]
1) What's your favorite dish to bring to a summer cookout?
I cannot eat outdoors, except in winter or in extremis.
Formerly, watermelon.
2) How much time have you spent outdoors this week?
Mom dragged me out to the garden for about an hour and a half yesterday. More fucking tomatoes.
("You're ready to face the wilds!" Dad said, when I walked out the back door wearing a pollen mask and a mosquito-net suit.)
I was going to go for a walk on Monday, but it was too rainy.
3) Where do you set your thermostat?
Currently 73F. Some years we work our way up to 74.
Symmetrically, in winter it's 67 or sometimes 66.
4) How did you learn to swim?
I did play around in pools as a kid, but also I took a class in 2011. Apparently almost all people take swimming classes either in early childhood or not at all: there were only two other people in the adult class (ages 13+), and they were both elderly people trying to get over their fear of water so that they could play with their grandchildren in the pool.
Which is kind of strange, really, since it turns out that swimming gets so much easier after you've been on estrogen for a while. I have a built-in flotation belt now!
5) How do you avoid overheating?
In practice, mostly by staying inside. Outside: hats, shade, fans, having a body that grew up with New Jerseyan summers and is used to this sort of thing.
1) What's your favorite dish to bring to a summer cookout?
I cannot eat outdoors, except in winter or in extremis.
Formerly, watermelon.
2) How much time have you spent outdoors this week?
Mom dragged me out to the garden for about an hour and a half yesterday. More fucking tomatoes.
("You're ready to face the wilds!" Dad said, when I walked out the back door wearing a pollen mask and a mosquito-net suit.)
I was going to go for a walk on Monday, but it was too rainy.
3) Where do you set your thermostat?
Currently 73F. Some years we work our way up to 74.
Symmetrically, in winter it's 67 or sometimes 66.
4) How did you learn to swim?
I did play around in pools as a kid, but also I took a class in 2011. Apparently almost all people take swimming classes either in early childhood or not at all: there were only two other people in the adult class (ages 13+), and they were both elderly people trying to get over their fear of water so that they could play with their grandchildren in the pool.
Which is kind of strange, really, since it turns out that swimming gets so much easier after you've been on estrogen for a while. I have a built-in flotation belt now!
5) How do you avoid overheating?
In practice, mostly by staying inside. Outside: hats, shade, fans, having a body that grew up with New Jerseyan summers and is used to this sort of thing.
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Date: 2021-06-28 09:46 pm (UTC)Our local elementary schools now do swimming classes in 2nd or 3rd grade for all students, which I think is a great thing. My pastor is in her 60s and is taking classes to get over her fear of water!
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Date: 2021-07-01 01:49 pm (UTC)(Indoors, with my household.)
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Date: 2021-07-12 03:45 pm (UTC)