Joy: 
Those of you who have been our houseguests--all 6 of you!--will be pleased to see our most recent addition. Now even NBA players can comfortably shower at our house, not to mention the vertical overachievers who reside here. John, who masterfully installed the thing, believes that our quality of life has improved by 3.2%.
I guess we'll have to find some other quirky house feature to complain about. I'll go ahead and nominate the condensation on the windows. Which leads me to the next point.
Pain:
I know most of you are probably feel my pain, but it is hot as fuck outside. Oh well, at least it's humid. heh.
This morning in hopes of avoiding the heat, we forced ourselves out of bed for an early run, but at 7:30 we were completely sweat-drenched. Ick.
Feel you pain? I live in Austin, Texas. I don't wanna freakin' hear about your hotness. My garden is dying of thirst, my downstairs air condition died three days ago, and my new "memory foam" mattress "sleeps hot." Grrr. Don't.wanna.hear.about.your.painful.hotness.
Unless, of course, you want to post pictures of folks in the shower (you know, to demonstrate this new percentage of quality of life improvage). Naked photos. Now that would be hot.
Posted by: Joshie Juice | 30 July 2006 at 05:58 PM
For the only time I will be able to say this, if you believe in the 'heat index,' it is effectively hotter here in Urbana than Austin. (103 v. 98) yowza.
Posted by: dhawhee | 30 July 2006 at 06:03 PM
There are those who believe that the "heat index" is something like a myth. They say either the temperature is really 103 or it's not. My response: if it "feels like" it's 103, then damnit, it's one-oh-freakin-three. Don't be arguin with a brotha when it's that hot. Chances are i'm not in the mood.
Posted by: chris | 30 July 2006 at 06:20 PM
check that. it just shot up to 106.
Posted by: dhawhee | 30 July 2006 at 06:20 PM
I'm with you, Chris. There's a definite difference; otherwise, why would people in Idaho and Arizona be so cheerful about their temps? ("It's 125; but it's dry!") In fact, I think it's time to scrap standardized temperatures altogether and have a personalized weather.com site that measures effective temperature based on each person's individual warm/cold bloodness, whether or not they suffer from demyelination or dementia, and the number of times they in fact check the weather and/or complain on hot days. Given all that, my effective temperature is about 142.
Posted by: dhawhee | 30 July 2006 at 06:27 PM
Ya. Even in Michigan it's hot. Felt like Miami today when I stepped outside: humid and hot.
Little Miami Sound Machine for you: HOT HOT HOT!
Doesn't bother me as much because suddenly I remember what winter will be like.
Posted by: jeff | 30 July 2006 at 06:52 PM
Whaddyaknow? My apartment came with that exact same shower head. It does, indeed, rock.
Posted by: George | 30 July 2006 at 07:24 PM
I surrender: Those are some incredibly nice showerheads you've got. I think your quality of life will be improved by something more like 6.4%. But the fact that you manage to run--and outside, on a sweltering day like today--still makes you a scary-strong-professor-woman who could beat me up. And that scares me.
Posted by: Grim | 30 July 2006 at 09:11 PM
I can't believe you went outside. I refused to leave the air conditioned goodness of my apartment. Thankfully there is a grocery store in the basement.
Posted by: K | 30 July 2006 at 09:12 PM
Welcome Grim! See? It's not scary here. Thanks for the kind words about the showerhead. And K: we are all insanely jealous of your urban existence. I stash bags of pretzels in my basement; does that count?
Posted by: dhawhee | 30 July 2006 at 11:45 PM
And hi to George--long time. Hope the rest of your new digs are as great as the shower head.
Posted by: dhawhee | 30 July 2006 at 11:54 PM
Us AZ folks are only cheerful about the heat when we talk to potential tourists.
Otherwise we live like vampires--tennis at 4 am anyone?
Aspasia
Posted by: Aspasia | 31 July 2006 at 08:35 AM
I beat the heat by sitting inside and reading blogs.
Posted by: katka | 31 July 2006 at 08:47 AM
Nothing is better than living in a crappy Best Western hotel in the 100-degree heat while waiting for the slooooow movers to get into town with all your stuff. Oh yeah, except for all that plus a sick dog. Delightful.
Complain about the heat, get a ton of comments...
Posted by: Z | 31 July 2006 at 10:38 AM
See. You guyz never should have left.
Posted by: katka | 31 July 2006 at 01:34 PM
It sounds as hot in U/C as it is four hours north. I found yer blog... and thought I'd stop by and say hello.
Posted by: jenell | 31 July 2006 at 02:01 PM
Hi Jenell! So Madison is no different, huh? damn.
Posted by: dhawhee | 31 July 2006 at 02:05 PM
Oh, poor Z with his new ivy league job. In all seriousness, though, that sounds a bit hellish. We miss y'all.
Posted by: dhawhee | 31 July 2006 at 08:53 PM