summertime.

various summertime fun includes drinking wine outside; celebrating my new job - the offer was made wednesday and i start june 30. yay!; a visit from vegan #2, this coming weekend; and sun. lots and lots of sun, whether you want it or not.

summer is squarely here, though i suppose technically it's still 13 days away. i think overnight it maybe, maybe, got down to 80. saturday afternoon at softball practice is was hot, terribly hot. we soldiered on. i turned pink, as i am wont to do in the heat and sun. it generally tones down.

but generally.

not saturday. i radiated heat all night long. at brunch yesterday, someone exclaimed, loudly (louder than necessary, really), "girl, you are burned!" and i could not argue. it was the kind of sunburn i got years and years ago, when tanning sans sunblock was all the rage (thanks, 1980s).

and speaking of the 1980s, we revisited valley girl on friday night. the highlights:

• nicholas cage's eagle-shaped chest hair!
• the soundtrack - hello the Plimsouls and Josie Cotton!
  
• the clothes - tight jeans, skinny headbands worn on foreheads, stripes!
  
• the vocab - like totally for sure! gag me!
  

and, sadly, those highlights? totally the lowlights, too. here, the tag lines:

• She's cool. He's hot. She's from the Valley. He's not.
• Life in the valley: Hair, clothes, and attitude.