Cycling in a Heat Wave

Can be kind of fun.  Sorta.  I didn't even realize there was a heatwave going on.  That's the kind of killing-the-planet life I've defaulted to.  AC in the apt.  Bike ride (which is always hot and humid by contrast) then AC at GW during class.  Then the quick dash back home where awaits the 453 things which are NOT bar/bri questions and each of which is a perfectly valid reason not to do bar/bri questions.  But cycling in such weather is also no joke - hydration, always a problem, becomes more important.  When I got home yesterday I was liberally dripping.  And with each plink went another recently recorded real property factoid,.

Heard from Atomic recently - she's grooving on some "how humans make dumb choices because we have lizard brains hidden inside our monkey brains" article that I sent her.  I was introduced to this topic via my own bone-headed decisions, but took an interesting class here that explored such issues - "emotion, cognition, and the law," which I highly recommend to anyone interested in linguistics, psychology, and moral philosophy.  Atomic is perhaps in London, perhaps in India, perhaps in some other exotic land, but she's trying to figure out whether to allocate some funding towards a documentary about bestiality.  Something about Catholics and Sheep and sexual initiation which, due to pre-marital sexual restrictions, cannot involve other humans.  I couldn't even joke about it.  Sometimes the topic is so jokeworthy you just sit back and do nothing but softly finger your merino wool sweater. 

OK -  off to do whatever it is I do to get ready for the day.  I'll be choosing the spandex instead of the wool, I think. 

Comments

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

I'm already getting a little tired of changing shoes after biking places (query: doesn't anyone make some kind of rubber soles you can slip over the bottom of clipless shoes so you don't click when you walk?), but I'm considering getting some spandex in this heat. Do you change shirts and put on pants when you get here, or is it socially acceptable to look like a pervert in a bar review class?

[Scoplaw]

Hmm. See new post - I wanted to put in links. . .and was lazy.