heat.

It's been hot these days.

Really.

Really hot.

You get used to sweat. You just get used to it. You don't mind it anymore. You're sweating. You're covered in it. You're sticking. Maybe you've even gotten past the sticky stage. Maybe you're so sweaty you're slick. But you're used to it.

You don't even feel it anymore.

That's how it was here.

Hot.

And dry.

Nights are nice, though. Nights are cool. The wind's cool. It's sweet. You live for the nights. You go through the days ducking from air conditioned building to air conditioned building and you lay in the grass when you can't get into an air conditioned building and you just...pant.

But night. Night's your savior. Night, and the Pacific takes over. Sucks the heat out of the air. And the stars come out. And the wind's cold. And inside it's still hot, fucking hot, sweaty hot, but outside...

Outside, it's night.