omg rain already

One of the weirdest things about living in Costa Rica is that because it's so close to the equator, every day is about the same length. That's why there's no daylight saving time here in this country: the regularity of the days, and the people aren't basing their clocks on a 200-year-old out of date agrarian society.

There are only two seasons here. They are rainy and dry, but people call them summer and winter, and I always get confused which is which. I guess rainy season, which we should be in right now, is winter. So like typically March to October? And summer is when you'd normally think autumn and winter are, like October to March? I dunno but I'm shit desperate for rainy season to hit.

To make matters worse, no Tico (a Costa Rican person) knows when winter or summer start or end. You could ask 100 different Ticos and they would give you 100 different answers even if they had to make up months to do it.

Growing up in south Texas, October was always a hellish month because the all parts north would get like John Updike autumns, and we were going out on Halloween in those flame retardant vinyl costumes and pulling at the legs like feral little psychopaths because the vinyl would stick to your legs like duct tape. Further, you'd watch the weather throughout October and the local weather people would hype up a cold front only for the sheer power of Texas heat to keep that shit in Oklahoma.

I actually like hot weather. Growing up in Houston when you are used to it, it just hits different. And it has to have the humidity. I've spent too much time in Palm Springs and the high desert north of Rancho Cucamonga, and I'm sorry but even if it's 120 degrees with no humidity, it fucking sucks. DRY HEAT IS A LIE. And at least in Houston, everywhere is air conditioned. Even when you got in cars to take your posse for lunch no one would say anything until it was 15 degrees in the car and you could finally turn the air conditioner down and hear each other.

But I like all weather except insanely hot places like the blasted caldera of southern California outside of Santa Monica. I just like the weather to change. I lived in New Jersey, and I get all the jokes now, but they had seasons and that was pretty rad. Yeah the snow could be really treacherous at times, but so can a sudden blinding downpour in Texas! It's all relative.

And no, the weather in Costa Rica isn't what you'd expect from a tropical Central American country. It certainly gets hot along the Caribbean coast, but the Pacific? Not so much. Where I live in the central valley outside of San Jose, it's 77 degrees right now. It's been 77 degrees all day. The thing is, there's no breeze right now, and it reminds me of October in Texas. We have fans running constantly because it's actually warmer inside than it is out, and I'm exhausted by it.

I want it to rain. Really, I want it to rain and never stop raining.