too effing hot

I was just thinking the title when I saw it.

It's 95 objective degrees out (don't know the dew point) and as I was walking the mostly unshaded < 1/2 mile home from the gym, all I could think over and over was "This is terrible and we're all going to die."

I don't handle heat very well, you see.

chi 95f, 43% humidity, 69 dew point, 101 'heat index'
nyc 97f, 37% humidity, 67 dew point, 101 'heat index'

subtly different paths to misery

little rock ftw: 93, 44%, 68 dp, 97 index

only 97, aaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

I joke that I have "summer SAD" but seriously I get bad anxiety when I have to be outside and it's this hot, especially if I'm in direct sunlight. Part of it is just general "We're all going to die horrible deaths in global warming's molten cauldron," eschatological terror that I've had in some form or another since I was an 80s cold war kid and watched too much news, but part of it is just some brain-stem level response to being too effing hot.

been watching Naked and Afraid with my shirt off in my boiling hot apartment. what a way to die

i h8 it so much that when la lechera started celebrating spring a few months ago all i could think about was how badly it's going to suck when it gets to be now

kids realllllllly don't like sleeping in this weather (only 86F here in london, but nobody has AC and these kids just aren't used to it)

Just got an email that tomorrow is a charity jeans day at work. There's really no joy in charity jeans day with a forecast high in the 90s. How about a charity unisex sleeveless cotton gauze muumuu day?

xo omg mookieproof me too. I couldn't participate in that thread because I would have just crapped all over it with my despair.

"feels like" numbers have their heart in the right place, but as I mentioned in another thread it was recently saying it felt like 178F in Houston, something's all lil jacked up w/their calculations.

178F in Houston

That is terrible and you're all going to die!

i h8 it so much that when la lechera started celebrating spring a few months ago all i could think about was how badly it's going to suck when it gets to be now

I'm doing the same thing now dreading winter.

do you guys fight over the thermostat

I kinda enjoy this. we're all in it together right??

sorry

"We're all in this together", a phrase used by British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to indicate that the United Kingdom government austerity programme would require sacrifices from everyone.

so it's a phrase well-loved by all then
I'm getting some good feelings from you guys about this one

do you guys fight over the thermostat

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really. Sometimes if it's warmer than I might like outside and I come home from work and Jeff's already home and he hasn't opened any windows or turned on the AC and it's hotter in the house than it is outside, I am briefly but unquestionably awful about it, I am ashamed to admit. But then I put an ice pack in my bra and get a glass of cold water and I'm okay and very contrite. We're both pretty cheap so we keep the heat down in the winter, although sometimes Jeff has to layer up like http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpU4_IdQBGg/UQgDVXCbfsI/AAAAAAAAC-o/4yOBjm82Gyk/s320/Gymnophobia.png to cope.

More like this except with long sleeves and fleeces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tlw-oPDBM

It helps a lot that we both like it very cold for sleeping and usually don't even turn on the heat at night at all in the winter, unless it's like double digits below zero.

I hate the heat so so much, but I love the long days. Winter is okay with me, but even though it's just July, I get a little anxiety b/c it's dark out at 9 p.m. and I think of the months of crushing darkness to come.

don't even turn on the heat at night at all in the winter, unless it's like double digits below zero

otm. i live on the third/top floor tho, so it's no biggie

How the hell do ya'll drag yourself out of bed in the freezing-ass cold a.m.?

That's the hard part.

Space heater in the bathroom calls.

Do you have it on a timer or?

No, but the bathroom is small so it heats up fast.

The embarrassing thing is that we don't have central heat and there's installed heat in the bathroom at all and lived here for two or three winters before getting the space heater.

there's NO installed heat in the bathroom, that is.

God cold wake up is so many degrees worse than warm wake up

Heh degrees

god hot going to sleep is so many degrees worse than cold going to sleep

OTM. When my AC went out in NOLA in July I stayed in a hotel for two nights until it was fixed b/c sleep was just not possible.

only if it is cold and you have sufficient blankets/cosleepers to keep things cozy

xpost

otherwise easier to sleep hot imo. if you are too cold and are all balled up and shivering, that is nagl

getting up when it's cold is a matter of willpower
falling asleep when it's hot is a matter of luck

i have neither willpower nor luck, but i'll still take the former

OTM.

God we are having these crazy problems with elecrical surges in our apartment so the lights are constantly flickering and the AC fan is like vroooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo.... OOOOOOOOOOO...MMMMMMmmMMMM and I just sent our poor landlord a frantic email reminding him that it's hot and telling him that I will cry if our electricity goes out and we lose our AC.

Getting up when it's hot is a matter of heat.
Going to sleep when it's hot is a matter of booze.

amen

I joke that I have "summer SAD" but seriously I get bad anxiety when I have to be outside and it's this hot, especially if I'm in direct sunlight. Part of it is just general "We're all going to die horrible deaths in global warming's molten cauldron," eschatological terror that I've had in some form or another since I was an 80s cold war kid and watched too much news, but part of it is just some brain-stem level response to being too effing hot.

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg this

I felt the same way about the spring thread, too. I totally had to do some cognitive "living in the moment" exercises starting around March to avoid working myself into a lather of utter dread about this summer.

I am goddamn wasted in a soho bar for the sake of a/c

Friday here I come

emilys: SISTERS

ok it's in the mid-90s at 10pm, i understand that

having plates or doors or the fucking mail be actively warm to the touch is too much

i blame chinavision (and jeff!)

It's 35c/95f in my apartment right now and for the foreseeable future :(

boiling water to make pasta

nothing matters

nothing really matters
anyone can see
lipitor retriever . . . is me

just sat for 3 hours in Prospect Park, seeing an amazing Tiger Lillies show w/ digital effects and dying dying dying the whole time. Ice cream, water, beer didn't help.

tbf the worst part about the summer is not the heat but the mosquitos it brings