HEAT

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WHY CAN'T WE GET A COMPETANT POWER COMPANY?!?!?So it turns out I WASN'T imagining things. Last night Lauren and I were watching TV when everything went kinda gray. We both immediately leapt up to opposite sides of the room--me to turn off the lights, her to turn off the air conditioner--because in our experience, before a fully blown fuse (which

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[theswirtproject]

My answer: A retarded squirrel

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damn. working in a hot lab? that sounds horrifying. isn't it, like, in the best interest of everyone to keep biological materials like cells at a constant temperature? you should totally take some noxious chemical, spill it all over yourself, incur third-degree burns, and tell the university it was because you fainted from the heat. then you'll be set for LIFE.

stace, I have one word for you: MOVIES. go to the movies. everything out right now is crap anyway, so buy one matinee ticket, find a good spot, and sleep through movies all day long. i went to a movie on Monday night with Molly and it was SO deliciously cold. I wanted to spend the night in the theater.

that's very optimistic of you to think Alaska will still be cold in 6-8 months. i think it will probably be underwater. warm water.

how is your kitty holding up? Olive just sits around looking fat and miserable. then she occasionally tries to climb up on one of us and rub her hot furry body all over, not realizing that she is NOT wanted. poor kitty.

[theswirtproject]

yeah, I think some of the people who work on worms and flies had some of their experiments die. too bad for them! that's what they get for working on animals who can't regulate their own body temperature. mwahahahahaahah! suckers

[faux_teak]

Yeah, I woke up to an NPR collection of soundbites about the heat. It was a sanitation worker saying that there's a lot of rotting food and a lot of maggots, but hey... that's the job.

First of all, EW!

Second of all, it made me think of things like science experiments and museums where it's actually important that the temperature not fluctuate.

I guess they're just screwed.

[faux_teak]

Yeah, the thing I don't get is why there is never any preparedness... for anything extreme.

Every summer around here there are days that hit 100+ degrees. And every winter (or most of them) there is at least one significant snowstorm. And every year there are a handful of days of torrential rain.

I have lived in New York for about 3 years, and I know this. However, the MTA and ConEd and all the other New York City infrastructure people, who have presumably been in New York somewhat longer than 3 years, do not seem to know this.

They're NEVER prepared for anything. I rode to work this morning in one of those non-air conditioned subway cars. It was miserable.

A drowned rat found in the East River with a used hypodermic needle stuck through its face could do a better job running the electricity in this city.

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ha!
I think we should elect a drowned rat found in the East River with a used hypodermic needle stuck through its face mayor. IF it's a Democrat.

[amanita03]

I'm miserable. That is all.