The sealed-up, fortress-like school buildings in the leafy neighborhoods created a strange atmosphere of false summer on a hot weekday morning in May.
It is a hot weekday morning but the porches of the wooden bungalows that line the street are empty and the air is strangely quiet.
In June, on a hot weekday morning, Noor Behram arrived at the gate carrying a white plastic shopping bag full of photographs.
"You didn't have to leave to do anything," Mr. Laws said as he stood outside Laws & Laws service station and hardware store, the busiest place in town on this hot weekday morning.
It was nearly empty on a hot weekday night, and we were joined in a lovely open courtyard by a fashionable local couple and a creaky violin-and-piano combo, clad in animal prints, who regaled us with show tunes and Céline Dion.
On a recent hot weekday morning, about 35 members were on the course raking bunkers, planting grass, trimming tee boxes, weeding, digging holes for new bushes and even brandishing chain saws in a work crew that felled three ailing 50-foot trees.
ON a blazing hot weekday late last month, 6 of the 82 summer interns at TerraCycle, a "waste solution development" company, were shoveling mortar into a trench in the company's scrubby courtyard and layering it with beer and wine bottles, nearly 2,000 that they had plucked in the previous week or so from the Dumpsters of neighborhood bars.
That's the way you talk on your front porch on a hot weekday evening, hanging out with your friends, arguing politics and gossiping about a neighbor.
On a very hot weekday I schlepped from the valley to Paramount Studios where I sat down with veteran actor Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters, Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Miss Congeniality, The Crow, etc).
For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.
