Summer Freeze

The common complaint about living in Phoenix is that there are no changes of weather. People joke that there are two seasons here: hot, and not as hot. But the city looks and feels the same either way. It's in the mid-eighties today, as it has been for most of the month of November, yet you still see people around wearing long sleeves and jackets, and perhaps even the occasional knitted cap or scarf. It's as if they're trying to will the change of season by dressing the part, because it feels so unnatural for it to be late November and to not need a jacket when you walk outside, or to have your air conditioner kick on at least a couple of times a day. But Phoenix is a very unnatural city like that. And the longer I live here the more anxious I feel because of it.

Year-round spring and summer temperatures might sound tempting to some people, but for me and people like me, it creates this frustrating state of limbo. Like any changes within are harder to feel because there's no change outside. Or like those changes within won't take effect unless nature does it's part, too. How can you really grow or move forward when you can't feel time passing?

Anyway, this song always reminds me of the winter. Gives me the feeling of coldness even while people are swimming in the pool outside my balcony. Stupid global warming.



"Summer Freeze" by Unwound