*sweat*

some of you may have noticed something resembling a heat wave sauntering through the midwest. unless you live in alaska or the moon, you are probably wishing for air conditioning or the sweet embrace of death.

here are the chicago weather stats as of 7:53pm:
temp: 91˚
humidity: 61%
dew point: 76˚

the humidity, as we all know, is the relative moisture in the air. the higher this number, the ickier it feels ("icky" is a standard weather term). the dew point is the temperature at which the said moisture in the air turns to water. many of you may not know this, but it is THIS number that makes this weather so motherf*cking unbearable. this is what makes you sweat when you aren't even moving. this is the number that should remind us that chicago was once a fetid swamp.

according to this dew point, if it were to drop down to 76˚ (and i hope it does that before i melt into a puddle), we would have fog. all of the moisture in the air would show itself. this is why when you wake up at 6am and go out to your car and it's all wet. i'd say something about having a wet lawn in the morning, but i live in the city and haven't seen a lawn in about 7 years.

we do not have central air. it's the sacrifice we made to the vintage apartment god that gave us cool things as radiators with a cool engraved design and vent-less, squeeky hardwood floors. our apartment is a sauna. i have a small window unit that is being employed in the bedroom full-time. today, i lasted about 2 hours in the uncooled living room before i had to get out and go to some air conditioned haven... target. but i could only stand stay-at-home moms with their spawn and the elderly for so long. so after that, i went to starbucks. ahhhhh. they set their AC to "meatlocker" and i love it. but i couldn't sleep there, which is too bad.

so now we're sitting in the bedroom, both with our respective laptops. of course, with the air on, i'm still sweating. i hate it. this heat sucks. i think i'm going to crawl into the oven to get cool.