Damn you, Iowa winter

[allicapri]

It's cold. Really cold. Like, I'm wearing a long shirt, jeans, and a shawl and I'm still freezing cold. What I really need right now are slippers and a Snuggie. Yes, I would actually wear that overpriced abomination of a sleeved fleece blanket if I had one

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[beccastareyes]

A week and a bit before I return to Nebraska... yeah, that sounds about right. (Granted, I live in upstate New York, so I just get a bit less wind and a bit more snow. Isweartogod I need a postdoc in Pasadena or Tuscon...*)

* Then I'd be complaining about the heat all summer.

[allicapri]

Last winter I was seriously looking into a post-doc in Miami. It helps that there is a lab there that is relevant to my interests, so I can claim it's not just for the weather. ;)

In the summer I get amnesia and decide going back to Minnesota isn't a bad idea.

[beccastareyes]

Oh, same here. Or I decide that anywhere that regularly gets above ninety is not fit for human habitation -- the midwest kind of gets me coming and going there.

[allicapri]

anywhere that regularly gets above ninety is not fit for human habitation

That sounds like a testable hypothesis to me.

I'd like seasons a lot better if they didn't hit such extremes. Do we really need -40 and 110 degrees in the same year? I think not.

[cimorenegal]

We still haven't had snow that stuck here, and my fingers are crossed that we won't for a while, though I am fairly certain it's coming any day now as I keep hearing about surrounding areas getting their snow.

I've never seriously considered living somewhere warm, though. I hate the heat. I would much rather be freezing (which reminds me, I need to turn up the heat again. I turned it down last night because I was too warm) and pile on more and more clothes, legwarmers, and fuzzy sheepskin slippers than to be hot and not be able to take off any more clothes.

[allicapri]

Ugh, there's nothing worse than being so hot you want to take your skin off. There's a blizzard warning outside and just thinking about being that hot is making me uncomfortable.

I really only consider it when I'm standing outside in double digit negatives waiting for the bus, or digging my car out for the third time, but I always come back to reality eventually. ;)

[friendoffrogs13]

Yeah, here the weather turned cold at the start of December. The cold sometimes seems worse at the start of winter. It's making want to look for a job somewhere a bit warmer.

I don't do that well with heat. I've been in both Arizona and Florida in the summer, and it's not pleasant. (Yeah, Arizona is a "dry heat", but it is still hot. Places that have average highs over 100 F in the summer are too hot for me. And much of Florida is humid, which makes the heat that much worse.)

[allicapri]

It does feel worse right now. This temperature in February I'll be walking around with my coat open thinking about getting ice cream.

I don't handle heat well either. As much as I don't like cold, I really can't tolerate heat. My preferred temperature range is between 40 and 75 degrees...so I need to move to the California coast, apparently.