Poor Tom's a-cold

The common wisdom is that menopausal women are always too hot. Pfui. I've always been too hot. Can clearly remember in my 30's wondering what was this notion people had that t-shirts are cool. Thick heavy cotton, making you sweat any time the thermometer goes over 70F/ 21C. Mind you, that's a TO 70/21, meaning humid sticky and generally feeling like 86/30 or more. So yeah. I'm a sweater, meaning that in any season but winter I sweat; and in winter I sweat for other reasons.

Why then, in my late 50's, am I suddenly too cold? ( Read more... )

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I make it a rule not to post WIPs, but I'm posting the opening chunk of the current story because I have a feeling I'll take out half of it when the whole thing's finished and I come to edit it. Also to take my mind off what's happening to the south of us. It can be Wednesday nao, please?

Hence, epic fragment from Gouen Weeps On Shanten's Shoulder. Infodump onna stick! Get it while it's hot!