I wanna crawl into the refrigerator

Shwebb said:

What are you doing to keep cool?

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Grave yard shift at the morgue. Want to come over and visit my friends.

We reached 109 today, and it will be 112 by Tuesday. Of course, that comes with only a 5% humidity level, so it isn't so bad. How I stay cool? Lots of ice, a couple of fans, and very little clothes.

You're welcome to crawl into my freezer. I thoughtfully made room by eliminating the need to store the B&J's Phish Food in there.

Ice cream, and to counteract the effects of that, I'm swimming. If I could crawl into the freezer, eat the ice cream there and swim as well, I'd be set.

A/C and ice water. Wanna come over?

A towel, put into cold water, then wrapped around me!

Ok, five minutes later it's dry and I'm hot again but oh well..

I spend most of my time in the local Starbucks - they have the cooling set nice and low. They won't let me sleep there, though.

*waiting for autumn*

East Tennessee summers are brutal. We have the high 90s AND the ridiculous humudity. Oh...and there's rarely a breeze. There's nothing quite as lovely as getting to work at 8 a.m. and having a fashionable little damp streak down the back of your blouse. Yuk.

Thank goodness this apartment is super-easy to cool.

It's been in the high 90s here for the last few days.

We went to the beach and baked. Yay!

God I love summer.

Shadow_Ferret said:

God I love summer.

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You, my friend, are just sick.

This thread was started in fun but it also serves up a good opportunity to remind everyone about potential dangers associated with refrigerators.

Every year in America, approximately 150 or so writers die after crawling into abandoned refrigerators. Most of these tragedies are occur in or near Los Angeles shortly after pilot season but the issue is really one of national importance.

I urge everyone to remove the door before you dump your old refrigerators in a field expecially if you know a writer lives nearby.

Is there any breakdown by genre? Are, say, screenwriters more at risk than novelists or textbook writers? I'd assume, since the epicenter of the problem is LA, it would be screenwriters, but I do have a neighbor who's told me she's a published writer (of a vanity press cookbook, when pressed for further information).

Well, I was gonna crawl into the fridge with Shwebb, but now, I'm not so sure about it.

When I read the thread title, I thought I was going to find out about some bizarre, new form of shame.

Oh, yeah. The heat.

Now, I feel a mundane form of shame.

Jenan Mac said:

Is there any breakdown by genre? Are, say, screenwriters more at risk than novelists or textbook writers? I'd assume, since the epicenter of the problem is LA, it would be screenwriters, but I do have a neighbor who's told me she's a published writer (of a vanity press cookbook, when pressed for further information).

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Television writers are considered the highest risk category.

Novelists are most likely to have been accidentally trapped or purposely locked in a refrigerator as a child but this proves to be a good source of angst for their writing.

Only one case of a textbook writers death in this manner has been recorded. He was writing a law school textbook on liability, researching a case study about children locked in abandoned refrigerators. (Always have a research buddy!).

A/C and ice water.

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Thats right right, rub it in. I'm dying over here, and the boss won't spring for A/C

It's been in the high 90s pushing 100 with fairly high humidity for the past few days with no cool off in sight. I spent the weekend painting a bedroom at my aunt-in-laws that was on the south side of the house. Fortunately, the aunt-in-law kept the AC running and it wasn't too steamy (though for some reason the two gallons of paint didn't exactly match which is why I had to go back on Sunday and repaint the entire room again).

The computer is in the lower level of our split level so it usually stays cooler down here (preplanning on my part when we moved in last summer) and our yard is filled with trees (they provide great shade and cooling in the summer but TONS of leaves in the fall!)

Of course, if it starts to feel too warm in the house - I usually go outside for a walk. By the time I get back - the house 'feels' downright cold!

Take care all - and stay 'cool'.

I am sitting in my office at work. It's a long rectangular room, one wall of which is windows. Windows that don't open. It's well insulated so it never gets cold in the winter. There's no ventilation apart from the desk fans. But they just blow air around, in fact its like sitting in front of a hair-dryer.

So, if I seem a little crankier than usual; don't worry, it's just the heat-stroke talking.

A wet towel wrapped with ice and applied to the back of the neck.

Of course, you get water dripping down your back. But when there's a fan nearby, it makes things nice and cool.

Oh, lots of water and running the A/C.

dahmnait said:

You, my friend, are just sick.

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No, because the alternative is the death of nature. No greenery. Frigid temperatures. Snow shoveling. Frostbite. Icy roads and car crashes. Praying the furnace doesn't crap out. Having to bundle up just to get the paper from the porch.

I hate winter. Summer, as short as it is, is simply glorious. I'm willing to put up with a few 100°F days just to enjoy a chance to be out in the sun. And see women in a state of near undress.

Hero For Sale said:

Television writers are considered the highest risk category.

Novelists are most likely to have been accidentally trapped or purposely locked in a refrigerator as a child but this proves to be a good source of angst for their writing.

Only one case of a textbook writers death in this manner has been recorded. He was writing a law school textbook on liability, researching a case study about children locked in abandoned refrigerators. (Always have a research buddy!).

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Are you sure he wasn't hung up about the ethics section?

I sit naked on my balcony on a barstool and post to AW on my laptop. The breeze is lovely.