have you hugged a poikilotherm today?
strange little experiment-on-myself today.
our small office is served by several wall-mounted air conditioners. i don't have one in my room - my cold air comes from the unit across the hall in our office manager's room.
sometimes she has to close her door to take phone calls or do other stuff where she doesn't want to disturb the rest of us. about three minutes after she does that, i fall asleep. or my brain pretty much totally shuts down and i'm incapable of doing anything except stare blankly at the computer screen. :P
it's got to be a difference of only a couple of degrees, but it makes a huge difference to my metabolism.
so obviously i'm a newt or something. :)
if i was ambitious (or didn't have crazy deadlines looming) i could do a test to see just how much of an impact each degree of temperature change has on me....