Extremely brief snarl

[katallison]

It got down into the 20s last night.

They still have not turned on the heat in my office.

Grrrrrrrrr.

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[debg.livejournal.com]

OK, this is of the evil.

In my scenario featuring Hell? It's ten degrees below zero.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yup. Though I tell myself, this is just the first stage of the essential hardening-off process, so that when it *is* ten below I won't just shrivel up and die. What's especially masochistic is to head out the door on a 30-degree morning, shivering and whining, and then to think, "Oh, but wait until the morning it's fifty degrees colder than this." Which, of course, it shall almost certainly be sometime before next spring.

I'm trying to remember why it was I moved back here from San Francisco...

brrrr...

[debg.livejournal.com]

>I'm trying to remember why it was I moved back here from San Francisco...

You got me, sweetie. Since the only other place on earth I'd seriously consider living right now is in the hills between Florence and Arezzo, the questions leaves me balking.

I just don't do sub-zero or sub-Saharan heat very well.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

I guess it would be rude to gloat over California weather because we do have earthquakes.

namaste nancy

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Well, I could, of course, gloat in turn about California politics--except that would be mean and low. (And also fairly silly, coming from a resident of the state that elected Jesse Ventura governor, so I guess I'll just shut up now. *g*)

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

OMG, that bites!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Whiiinnnne . . . I wanna move to Vancouver, I do, I do.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

That would be SO very cool.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

But think of the lovely pollen-free air!!!

We've had our first frost. It's time to warm up again.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Oh - and yet another reason you should be in cahrge.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Ah, would that I could, but the building HVAC is controlled by the mysterious Uber-Demons of Facilities Management, of whom many dark tales are told, but whom few have seen. They hold the powers of light and darkness, heat and cold, they are the keepers of the keys, but their ways are strange to us mere mortals. (They are related to, but distinct from, the Fearsome Wizards of Tech Services, who hold the powers of internet connection, and who have no dealings with these "telephone" devices, preferring to do their work in secrecy, with cunning and malice.)

[twistedchick]

::hands you warmest-possible sweater, and hot coffee/tea/whatever::

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just shivered my way over to the student union and got a nice big bowl of soup, which I am tempted to simply plunge my hands into until they warm up, but that would be unhygienic, I guess.

[twistedchick]

I daresay it wouldn't be that unhygienic, but it's a real pain to get chicken grease out from under your fingernails, not to mention the smear factor.

It's in the 40s at night here, 60s in the daytime, and I'm enjoying NOT having the heat on -- but that doesn't mean I'm not also wearing sweaters, sweats, and other warmish bits of clothing. I even mended the holes in my best warm sweater (which has such a wild pattern that nobody would notice the mends) so I'd be ready down to about 30. But the 20s are a bit too chilly for just a sweater.

Put on a Sweater...

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

... I feel cold!

Two words that have saved me in similar situations: fingerless gloves.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Hm, now there's a thought. ::making a note to self:: I've been sitting on my hands much of the morning, but that does impede my ability to carry out basic work tasks, so...

[jcalanthe]

*hands you a warm fuzzy blanket* Have you considered bringing in a small portable heater? My boss, who runs extremely cold, keeps one under her desk yearround.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'd forgotten, but actually I *do* have a small heater that I use in my office in the winter. That is, I have it *somewhere* -- I remember taking it home to store over the summer -- except I really don't know where I put it. I have a horrible feeling it's in the garage (a.k.a. the pit of chaos, which I fully intended to clean out on one of those mild mellow warmish October Saturdays that it looks like we may not actually get, damn it.)

But thank you for reminding me about it! (I guess worst case scenario I could just buy another one, eh?)