I signed up for this
And this
And this
But did not sign up for highs in the high 90s with a heat index in the 100s. It's only fair, don't you think?
After a Bikram run yesterday morning and a disgusting sweaty bike ride to work, I thought I had it made, sitting in the AC all day. But no. Three chiller plants on campus broke, and all the remaining cold air production capability was diverted to the hospital and to buildings with animals. Okay, I don't really have an argument with that, but I thought this line of the press release summarized the attitude of university leadership/state government toward university employees perfectly:
This means human comfort will not be a top priority in chilled water distribution until the chillers are back to full capacity.
I work in one of those tall buildings that don't have windows that can open, and our office started to get steamy by the afternoon. There was a huge rush to get more of our stored samples to a place with AC because trying to keep samples at -80F in a room that is 100F will kill the freezers. And then there are our servers...
The most recent update from the university says that one of the chiller plants is working again, but they are kind of non-committal about what that will actually mean for the AC situation. I'm guessing that if it's super warm in our building most people will work from home. I'm going to try to stick it out, but I'm not above doing that, either.
This is going to make Al Gore cry, but we've been keeping our window unit on at our apartment during the day set to 80 degrees so it's not miserably hot when we get home in the evenings. In fact, it feels pretty good right now.
Well, I'm off to do some Bikram weight lifting followed by some Bikram SAS programming.
How are you staying cool today?
