That last word is the key. Given how dry it is right now, the impulse to slow down the loss of fluids feels like an biological imperative. I want salt badly, whether in a margarita or anchovy sauce. Also, I love the way it feels to go to the pool at this time of year. I sit in the shade, reading, as if I were in a sauna -- not too far from the truth -- until I feel too desiccated to continue, then plunge into the blissfully eighty-degree water. And when I'm done floating or walking or swimming, I climb out and glory in the sensation of being air dried in minutes. Sometimes I fantasize that I'm a strip of beef drying in the rooftop sun. Maybe that's not your idea of fun, but I have a soft spot for extremity. I am also particularly eager for the full heat of the pre-Monsoon season to arrive, because it will mean the end of the allergy conditions that continue to make me periodically -- but no longer constantly -- miserable.
Salt Miner
That last word is the key. Given how dry it is right now, the impulse to slow down the loss of fluids feels like an biological imperative. I want salt badly, whether in a margarita or anchovy sauce. Also, I love the way it feels to go to the pool at this time of year. I sit in the shade, reading, as if I were in a sauna -- not too far from the truth -- until I feel too desiccated to continue, then plunge into the blissfully eighty-degree water. And when I'm done floating or walking or swimming, I climb out and glory in the sensation of being air dried in minutes. Sometimes I fantasize that I'm a strip of beef drying in the rooftop sun. Maybe that's not your idea of fun, but I have a soft spot for extremity. I am also particularly eager for the full heat of the pre-Monsoon season to arrive, because it will mean the end of the allergy conditions that continue to make me periodically -- but no longer constantly -- miserable.
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