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Almost 30 years ago, the fanzine convention Corflu was in El Paso, Texas.
El Paso is right across the border from Juarez, Mexico. There was a group outing before the con really started, and I bought a blue-and-purple striped cotton poncho, partly as a souvenir and partly because I thought it would be useful.
Back in New York, I quickly discovered that many of the days that were cool enough for me to want the poncho, but warm enough that the poncho would be enough, were windy. (There are disadvantages to living that close to the Hudson River.) So I put it aside, but kept it, putting it on one shelf or another.
Then I found myself wearing a wrist brace almost 24/7. Somewhere in the last thirty years, my thermoregulation got wonky, such that I can go from too hot to too cold, and back again, within ten minutes. (I'm not having hot flashes. I tend to blame it on the MS, because almost anything with no other identifiable cause might be an MS symptom.) I'd been coping with that by putting on a light sweater or sweatshirt as needed, removing it again, etc. but the brace interferes with it.
So, the poncho. It's very easy to put on and remove, and I don't need to worry about wind inside the apartment. I hadn't expected it to suddenly be practical in my life, and I'm glad I kept it.
El Paso is right across the border from Juarez, Mexico. There was a group outing before the con really started, and I bought a blue-and-purple striped cotton poncho, partly as a souvenir and partly because I thought it would be useful.
Back in New York, I quickly discovered that many of the days that were cool enough for me to want the poncho, but warm enough that the poncho would be enough, were windy. (There are disadvantages to living that close to the Hudson River.) So I put it aside, but kept it, putting it on one shelf or another.
Then I found myself wearing a wrist brace almost 24/7. Somewhere in the last thirty years, my thermoregulation got wonky, such that I can go from too hot to too cold, and back again, within ten minutes. (I'm not having hot flashes. I tend to blame it on the MS, because almost anything with no other identifiable cause might be an MS symptom.) I'd been coping with that by putting on a light sweater or sweatshirt as needed, removing it again, etc. but the brace interferes with it.
So, the poncho. It's very easy to put on and remove, and I don't need to worry about wind inside the apartment. I hadn't expected it to suddenly be practical in my life, and I'm glad I kept it.
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