Some Like It Hot
It’s summertime in Austin, and if you don’t know what that means…it’s hot! The kind of hot that can melt a massive iceberg in about twenty minutes if you could put it in a Walmart parking lot. But, you know what…I like it. When that sunshine falls on my body, I feel life flowing into me. I know…the dermatologists say, “Stay out of the sun and if you go outside, put on sunscreen”. But doctors have been proven wrong about many things, and a part of me thinks this is one. I’m not saying go out and char yourself, but nothing that feels that life giving can be that bad. So here we are, the sun lovers of the south in our shorts and flip-flops soaking up those rays. I have lived through the artic blasts of New England, and the four foot blizzards of Washington state and been rewarded later with about one week of real summer, but that isn’t for me. I suspect it isn’t for most of us Austinites…we like it when it’s hot.
So if you prefer a beach to a snow bank, or a bathing suit to a parka, maybe you should consider Austin living. This place is full of smart people, music, high tech jobs, a booming oil business, new high-rises galore down town, University of Texas athletics, and loads of glorious scorching summer sun…it’s hot!