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From reverendmother
1. What's the high temperature today where you are?
They're saying 90 degrees...I'm loving this for the end of July!
2. Favorite way(s) to beat the heat.
Window unit on 75 degrees, a ceiling fan, an oscillating fan, not oscillating but blowing directly on me...heaven!
3. "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." Evaluate this statement.
Humid is better, imo. After living 15 years in Houston and now in humid (summer) DC, it's definitely better for my body! Generally I've found the humid places are near bodies of water, which just naturally generate a little breeze in the summer. I remember living in Houston in 1985 and my brother Kirk visited (a triathlete). I had just started running that year and during his visit, he went to do his daily run. After about a block or so, he came back dripping wet and said he couldn't do it and asked how I did. It "pumped up my tennis shoes" to say the least!
4. Discuss one or more of the following: sauna, hot tub, sweat lodge, warm-stone massage.
The only one of these I've done is the hot tub and I'd say it depends on who's in it with you. Definitely do not like it if it's filled with strangers.
I'll add one to the list - Hot Yoga, a series of yoga poses done in a heated room. The room is usually maintained at a temperature of 95-100 degrees. As you can imagine, a vigorous yoga session at this temperature promotes profuse sweating which rids the body of toxins. It also makes the body very warm, and therefore more flexible.
I can't imagine anything worse...that has to be hell on earth!
5. Hottest you've ever been in your life
I spend so much of my life being hot, but I'll have to say that there was a summer day in July when 4 year old ReverendMother and 1 year old sister K and Aunt Sherry and I went to see their Aunt Kathleen play soccer. There was not a tree in site and it was so hot that I think K suffered somewhat of a heatstroke. She hasn't like hot temps since then!
Non-temperature related bonus: In your opinion... who's hot?
Edward Norton
Liam Neeson
William Hurt
George Chakiris
Paul McCartney
British intellectuals
James Hetfield
Brad Bird
Matt Stone
Stephen Colbert
Daniel Mendelsohn
Malcolm Gladwell
Usually a guy in a uniform
1. What's the high temperature today where you are?
They're saying 90 degrees...I'm loving this for the end of July!
2. Favorite way(s) to beat the heat.
Window unit on 75 degrees, a ceiling fan, an oscillating fan, not oscillating but blowing directly on me...heaven!
3. "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." Evaluate this statement.
Humid is better, imo. After living 15 years in Houston and now in humid (summer) DC, it's definitely better for my body! Generally I've found the humid places are near bodies of water, which just naturally generate a little breeze in the summer. I remember living in Houston in 1985 and my brother Kirk visited (a triathlete). I had just started running that year and during his visit, he went to do his daily run. After about a block or so, he came back dripping wet and said he couldn't do it and asked how I did. It "pumped up my tennis shoes" to say the least!
4. Discuss one or more of the following: sauna, hot tub, sweat lodge, warm-stone massage.
The only one of these I've done is the hot tub and I'd say it depends on who's in it with you. Definitely do not like it if it's filled with strangers.
I'll add one to the list - Hot Yoga, a series of yoga poses done in a heated room. The room is usually maintained at a temperature of 95-100 degrees. As you can imagine, a vigorous yoga session at this temperature promotes profuse sweating which rids the body of toxins. It also makes the body very warm, and therefore more flexible.
I can't imagine anything worse...that has to be hell on earth!
5. Hottest you've ever been in your life
I spend so much of my life being hot, but I'll have to say that there was a summer day in July when 4 year old ReverendMother and 1 year old sister K and Aunt Sherry and I went to see their Aunt Kathleen play soccer. There was not a tree in site and it was so hot that I think K suffered somewhat of a heatstroke. She hasn't like hot temps since then!
Non-temperature related bonus: In your opinion... who's hot?
Edward Norton
Liam Neeson
William Hurt
George Chakiris
Paul McCartney
British intellectuals
James Hetfield
Brad Bird
Matt Stone
Stephen Colbert
Daniel Mendelsohn
Malcolm Gladwell
Usually a guy in a uniform
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