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my job at Andrus gives me the opportunity to experience first-hand all the lovely weather systems that traipse up the east coast.

if you are wondering, my job is grass. yes, i'm a lawnboy

from the lightning storms and flooding, oh, and the tornado i saw last week, it gets pretty exciting.

today was the heat. 8:30am and my "safety goggles" are sliding off my face from the profuse sweat. 8:45am and my jeans and bright orange "safety chaps" are soaked through. 8:50am and i have garter snake all over me. (poor guy, he didn't know what hit him. hehehe...i have too much fun with my weedwacker sometimes) 9:00am and the grass is looking purple, the sky has this cool orange glow to it, and i'm starting to feel sick. now i've had those symptoms before, like right before i passed out of heat exhaustion as a 4th grade soccer player. i decided it was time to go inside.

no passing out this time.

i got put on boxes. they give me a razor blade and a pile of boxes and let me have fun. i like boxes. i did that for a while, and was starting to cool off in the shade of the garage when the electricity in yonkers decides to go out. so i spent the rest of the time trying to stay cool as the heat outside, and now inside, continued to climb through the 90s. fun stuff.

it's 10:39pm and 94 degrees.

the power is back on.

i'm going to bed.