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Tolerance
I have a fairly adequate level of tolerance. I sat through a root canal and a wisdom tooth extraction without much issue. Hell, it took me two weeks of agonizing pain before I even considered going to the dentist. I tolerated a four hour daily commute for almost two years straight. I sat through Wing Commander. I took courses in Discrete Mathematics. I have walked through blizzards with an unbuttoned jacket leaving my neck exposed to the blowing snow without ever getting sick or mildly permafrosted. I can tolerate these things.
The heat and humidity, I can not.
I hate how my shirt sticks to the back of my neck. I hate the sticky wrist that I get from using a mouse or wacom tablet. I hate the way the keyboard starts to feel after two or three hours of high humidity use. I hate the greasy, sweaty controllers during a gaming session. I can't work, I can't game, I can't do anything at home except sit and roast and, maybe, watch tv. Lots of rerun movies and Discovery Channel and History Channel. This weather feels so... unproductive.
I miss the winter.
And it's only the beginning of June. Fuck.
Today's bonus content: the most impressive optical illusion I've seen in a while, appropriately named look at the middle.
June 06, 2005. General.Comments (5)
And yeah, I feel your pain when it comes to the heat. When I was in Berkeley, I would either be lying on my bed at home in a heat-induced daze, not getting any work done, or I would try to walk to a coffee shop or library, getting soaked in the process.
Stupid overpriced no-air-conditioning Berkeley housing.
June 6, 2005 01:33 AM. Posted by: Walter.bah! I LOVE that illusion. It temporarily distracted me from the stifling suffocation known as June. It feels like it's 166 degrees in here! maybe closer 167 ;)
...stupid cheap no-putting-on-air-conditioning parents!
Its called airconditoning my friend. You may think its to expensive, but isint having a fun summer worth a few hundred bucks?
June 9, 2005 09:59 AM. Posted by: Zaphod.Oh, I know of the joys of air conditioning quite well and have made this investment. For home. However, there is more to the story that I do not want to get into (suffice it to say, for a while, the office did not have an AC).
June 9, 2005 06:18 PM. Posted by: nowak.
You took more than one class in discrete mathematics? That IS impressive!
June 6, 2005 01:28 AM. Posted by: Walter.