Weed and crystal meth

I'm offered these two things more than anything else in attempt to lure me into one thing I'm totally not interested in, or another.

Weed

Crystal meth

And then ...

Dick

"No thanks. I'm trying to quit."

Does no one do coke or heroin anymore? What, too expensive? 

Didn't Vegas run out of weed? Somewhere in Venice, a 97 pound, 45 year old man living with his mother, is high... and laughing. 

"Summerlin, is very nice."

That's a catch phrase in Vegas. You can't say, "I have a job interview in Summerlin" without the other person responding, "Summerlin, is very nice. It's a very nice place to live." Fuck your job interview, Summerlin is awesome! 

I get it, Summerlin, and Henderson, are two very nice places to live. I knew that already. So where's my job interview? Summerlin. That's all that's important. 

But...

There is one eerie thing about Summerlin, for reasons I cannot explain, nor have ever encountered before, oddly I don't ever have to pee in that city. Strange. Maybe that will change once I work, and/or live there? The few 107 degree afternoons I've recently spent there, I've downed enough fluids to fill an NFL Gatorade cooler five times over, and didn't have to pee NOT ONCE. Impressive. A little scary. But the moment I left Summerlin city limits, I made Russian race horses JEALOUS. 

My body is still adjusting to Vegas heat. it's 30 degrees hotter than what my body's used to for the past 25 years. I can vacation anywhere, any climate, temporarily, plus I'm a Capricorn, if you believe in that kind of thing. Capricorns can handle climate & altitude change rather well. Still, it feels like my lungs and heart are working incredible hard to adjust. Both, just feel so... heavy. 

AND

You're not sweating water. Dry heat. You're sweating vitamins and nutrients. Burning 600 calories, sweating in dry heat, with an intake of 400 calories, would be fine in 80 degree weather, but compact with 30 degrees hotter than what your body is accustom to, and ZERO humidity, and you just feel like you're breaking down. 

I know runners in Vegas, and they're constantly popping vitamins and added supplements just because of the heat. Maybe I need to do that, and hope three months out of the year I can workout in a gym, breathing air conditioning and the perspirations of others. Mmmmm yummie. UGH! No.

There's an intersection in Summerlin, Red Rock desert & Pavilion Center, where off in the near distance is an illusion of an ocean. There's a blue "haze" in between the desert trees where an ocean SHOULD be... 

But

It's just a mirage

Yours,

Simone Gordon