Large Scale Heating.

Apparently they just switched to natural gas boilers from coal.

So I know for efficiency purposes, large scale heating and cooling makes sense.  But obviously not everyone will be happy with the temperature.  Take for example my dorm.  This entire campus has steam heat (a novel concept for people from California like me).  But because most of the campus is run off one steam plant, it's not just an on/off procedure.  So basically, you don't want to turn on the plant for one cold night, then find out that it's gonna be 70 degrees tomorrow.  So you'd think that December in Kentucky would be cold enough to have the plant running?  Wrong.  For 3 days now, it's been unseasonably warm, and I can't turn the AC on.

People over-dressed for the weather.

So this morning it was 28⁰ here, and you know what?  I still wore shorts, a t-shirt, and a light sweatshirt.  I will admit that I do get cold sometimes, but only if it's windy or raining.  In fact, today has been quite delightful.  As I sat in front of my classroom waiting for the professor, some other guy walks up wearing jeans, gloves, a heavy coat, and a beanie, and asks me how I'm wearing shorts.  He was obviously over-dressed.  No one, not even the grounds staff was wearing gloves today.  It was sunny, calm, dry, and just a tad cold.  No need to go overboard here.

Fine Friday X: Rain.

Precipitation is a gray area for me.  It can either be something delightful, or it can ruin my day.  Example: my sister and I share a car back home. Said car is extremely temperamental. If it's raining out, the battery shorts out and loses its charge. But then again, I adore the smell of fresh rain on asphalt.  You already know my feelings on more extreme forms of precipitation, but sometimes I just like to look out my window and watch it fall.  Another example: today's forecast for campus? Rain with ice pellets. Not fun, especially when you have long uncovered walks to classes.

Inclement Weather.

I know, I know... I can't really complain about this one.  Nothing will can ever get done about it.  But in all seriousness, I hate bad weather.  I have nothing against snow or rain, but I'm talking about Huge Storms, or any Thunderstorm in general.  Probably my biggest fear of all time is Tornadoes.  Pardon my language, (this is probably one of the only times I will cuss on here, I promise) but those things are FUCKING SCARY AS HELL.  When I was flying home from Italy in 1st grade, the in-flight movie was Twister.  I had nightmares for months about tornadoes.  Only after my parents had explained that Santa Barbara doesn't get tornadoes because of the mountains did they go away.  I've never even had a bad experience with weather either.  The worst is like the power going out for an hour or two.  But I will almost never go outside in a thunderstorm.