i want to be clear, though.

i didn't spend the morning complaining that i'm cold.

i spent the morning - since i woke up not long after midnight - physically unable to do much of anything because i was too cold to actually function. i did the things i usually do when i'm cold - dishes in hot water, cooking pasta on the stove, two sweaters and a winter jacket at one point and then three hot showers, but they were fleeting and i just ended up in my blanket after each one.

i don't know what would have happened had i tried to shiver through it. what i know is that i was cold enough that i instinctively didn't do that, and i assume my instincts asserted themselves for good reason.

ok. one, two...go...

in the short run, i'm realizing that i can't live with older white men that have recent genetic history in the northern parts of eurasia. we're just not evolved for the same environmental conditions - he likes it cool and dry, because he's adapted to it; i like it hot and humid, because that's my own adaptation.

even if the issue right now is more about outside than inside...

it's looking like it's popped up a little closer to 25, so i'm going to see if i can get out of bed and get dressed.

should we do this?

should atheists get a bunch of guns and just show up somewhere near the equator and throw the muslims and/or catholics (or jews. whatever.) in the ocean and take it?

we don't have a homeland, and our aristocrats are afraid of us, and keep bringing the abrahamists here to overrun us. it's kind of like...

if you guys want canada, maybe we can trade, or something?

so, do i want to go back to where i came from?

well, if i knew where i came from...

maybe.

the problem i have with warm climates is that they're full of muslims and felids. i think i can mostly avoid the crocs, but the leopards will come right in the house to get you, if you let them. muslims, too. if there was a forward thinking, atheistic-driven, anti-abrahamic society near the equator and the ocean somewhere...

there isn't.

i'd pick south america over the muslim countries in asia and africa, but they're all catholic, and consequently not very appealing as destinations to move to.

if i could design my own planet, right? i'd make all the muslims white and send them to the north pole, so that we could build atheistic utopias in the more appealing places. after we ban hurricanes by instituting daily pole reversals. or, maybe you just make the planet all land, except lakes, and put the fresh water underground. yeah...

i get these nasty cases of the chills, from time to time, but they tend to pass after an hour or two. i've been shivering since i woke up around 3:00, unable to stop my teeth from chattering for hours at a time. why is this happening?

the air conditioner upstairs is no doubt a part of the problem, and i hate air conditioners and would disown my children for ever using them, but i think what actually happened is that the temperature caved in very far, very fast. so, it went from 35 degrees to 17 degrees in a few days. while 17 degrees is not particularly cold, the difference is quite massive. i've essentially been unable to adjust, and been unable to do anything until it passes.

i've taken three scalding hot showers this morning, each upwards of an hour in length, and i still just can't stop shivering. i can't escape this blanket, which is at least trapping my body heat from escaping.

still. it's reminding me that my genes are not from the north, and that whatever epigenetic reactions occurred in last week's blissfully beautiful heat wave don't exactly want to let go. it's like you let the cytosine loose in a candy shop, creating what may be referred to as a cytosine storm.

yeah. well, this whole migration thing is kind of undoing evolution in a way, isn't it? you're not supposed to dramatically change climates within a few generations. my dna was in warmer climates for thousands, if not millions, of years; i evolved to live in humid, hot places. that's what i am. and, i wonder if i shouldn't undo the mistake made in my genome's recent history, and get these genes back into the climate they were adapted to.

they're not proliferating up here, in this igloo carved out of the side of a glacier, that's for sure. i'm not evolved for it, and the other genomes seem to realize it.

it would help if i could figure out where the genome needs to go to get back home, to the adapted latitude.

for now, we should get some more summer-like temperatures this afternoon. as it is, i'm basically forced to put the day on hold and sit inside until i stop shivering. and, i'm feeling a tad better as i'm typing...