5 inconvenient truths of summer - The every day Tar Heel (blog)

Lydia McInnes posted eight hours ago

It's the most incredible time of the year! And no, I don't mean Christmastime. 

summer wreck is correct across the corner and although the first few weeks are extra like a late spring break and less like an early summer, most of us are living in North Carolina, and that ability hot temperatures and early pool openings. 

while everyone and their mother loves a great scorching summer, there are a number of inconvenient truths about summer time that make it now not so first-rate for every person concerned:

returned sweat

I'm bound most of you're already conversant in our respectable friend lower back sweat, especially these of you who live on south campus. because the walk to leading campus is often one colossal sluggish uphill, by the time you get to your courses there's usually a bit puddle on the small of your again. 

This puddle becomes a full-blown swimming pool in the summer, but hopefully you won't have to be trekking back and forth between courses, so probably you're swimming pool might be a little smaller than most.

Sunburns

For these of us unfortunate enough to were born with fish-stomach white epidermis, summer time potential sunburns and sunburns suggest summer time. I've already obtained a bad one on my shoulders from two hours spent outdoor on Saturday, so i know that a few of you're already wearing some crimson splotches. 

sadly, pink skin is only half and parcel of summer for some of us, so break out the sunscreen and the Aloe Vera and prepare for the worst. those of you blessed with sunburn-resistant dermis, you more suitable count number your lucky stars this summer season season. 

Sunscreen

I don't know if I'm the only 1 who hates sunscreen, however I'm in no way the best who wants it (and in case you feel you don't, examine above). 

The lotion itself is gross and heavy and leaves your dermis feeling sticky and smelling like plastic. If I could get away without donning sunscreen, i'd. alas, that would mean either epidermis cancer or hiding away in my room unless the sun units (like a vampire), so it's some thing we just ought to grin and undergo to the better of our competencies. 

Condensation

Nothing is more suitable than an ice-cold glass of lemonade on a scorching day, but nothing is worse than achieving for that tumbler and having a drop of water skim down your wrist into the crease of your elbow. It's an icky feeling, determining up a pitcher and having to deal with the condensation around the rim, but short of ingesting room-temperature water (which is yet another level of nasty that I don't have time to enter) or purchasing a elaborate anti-condensation water bottle, there doesn't appear to be the rest to do for it. 

Ice cream man anxiety. 

i know for a undeniable fact that I wasn't the handiest who heard the ice cream man roaming round my nearby when i used to be a kid. I additionally understand that I wasn't the only 1 who panicked each time that music started playing, specially as a result of i used to be petrified of being left without my Captain the usa cherry popsicle.

To at the present time, that twinkly song nonetheless fills me with anxiety and an intense want to delivery running towards the supply, no rely how ridiculous it can seem. i am (practically) a grown up, darn it! The peak of my maturity will come each time I cease fearing that music and the panicky desires that come with it.  

however regardless of these summer fears and others, it doesn't matter. at the end of the day, most of us will now not be going to type and that's ample of an incentive to deal with any inconvenient truths of the summer season.  

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