a hot day in california

It was the hottest day in recent memory. Hot days in Southern California are always confusing because you never feel them coming, and once you adjust to them they’re gone. This hot day was probably due to the Santa Ana’s, though Mel didn’t know their pattern or when they were prime to strike, but still, when the weather was like this, the Ana phenomenon seemed to pop up in conversation. Mel hated hot weather, it made her entirely uncomfortable and reminded her of Oklahoma and Arizona and all those places she preferred to forget. It made her more unfocused than usual, her concentration issues became far more extreme and, even with the window open, when she sat down with the promise of finishing the writing project she had been working on all week all she ended up with was falling asleep.