Monday, December 8, 2008

If talking about the weather were an olympic sport

Soooooo, it's zero degrees Fahrenheit, and probably colder with the wind chill, though CBC ever so metrically says it's -18 degrees, which scared me for about 3/5ths of a second as -18 is an entirely different ballgame of cold in Fahrenheit. Although Canadians are generally better-acquainted with cold than the residents of 49 out of 50 states, when a Canadian says something like "It's so cold out! It's going to be minus fifteen today!" I find myself wanting to reply, "Oh yeah? You think that's cold? You should try minus fifteen in America!"

And yet somehow it is a rather tropical 74 degrees in my apartment, though I have yet to turn on the heat this year. There is nothing coming out of my radiator. But even if I were to crack a window, the temperature would go down temporarily but spike right back up in an hour or two. WHERE IS THIS MYSTERY HEAT SOURCE? I barely needed blankets last night which is really not what I migrated north for.

I just printed out a Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion chart, so BRING IT, WINTER.

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