I am not a lizard

[la_marquise]

I seem to have transformed, over the last few days, into a character from a Somerset Maughan novel. Specifically, one of those frail women who droop over chaises longues, in states of perpetual fragility and weakness. It is, quite simply, both too hot and too humid. I can cope with one at a time, but both together... No. Nothing is getting done, I can't concentrate.
Dizziness, headaches, lethargy... If you want me, I shall be reclining on the daybed, cologne-soaked handkerchief in hand.
(It's not heat-stroke. I know the symptoms -- been there, done that -- and how to avoid it. I'm just no good at this kind of weather.)

Skirt of the day: long blue cotton.

Comments

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Ha! There is an advantage to living halfway up the Pennines. We have had neither the heat nor the humidity, thank goodness. It has been blissfully cloudy and a steady 21 degrees, reducing to a low of 13. Yay! I don't do well in heat, especially when combined with humidity. Lat time we played Bethlehem Musikfest it was 104F and something like 80% humidity. And THEN they switched on the stage lights, each one a 500W radiant heat source. I thought I was going to die. I sympathise with your decorous drooping. I trust you look pale and interesting rather than (as I do in that kind of weather) something closely akin to a beetroot - a sweaty beetroot.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

If anyone *actually* looks pale and interesting in this kind of weather I propose we sweaty beetroots all get together and lie on them until they too are red, swollen and sticky.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

You're on, mizkit. It is entirely what they deserve.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

:oP

As you can see from the userpic, I look pale and interesting all the time- the pic's not washed out- I really _am_ that pale!

I don't know which part of my somewhat complex ancestry to blame for this. :o)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Argh. That would finish me off!
I would be delighted if some of the clouds would come south. (I stay fairly pale. If I go red, it's a sign I'm in danger of fainting or similar.)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

They took a video of one of those afternoon stage performances. My face is approximately the colour of the upholstery under your cat on your user pic. Not a pretty sight.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, dear!