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Sweet Fucking Shit, It's Cold Outside

February 4, 2007 1:51 AM

t's currently 1:54am. The air temperature outside is -11. If you factor in wind chill, it feels like -24. I can honestly say that this is the coldest temperature I've ever personally experienced.

My car was ridiculously cold when I got into it. I drove home, so I was in it for about ten minutes. I don't own gloves. That means my hands were exposed to the ridiculous cold for about ten minutes. I've been inside my beautifully heated (three cheers for free heat!) apartment for about ten minutes now. I still don't have the full feeling back in my fingers. In fact, I'm having trouble typing.

I had heard these stories about how, if it gets cold enough, your snot freezes. I never really believed them. Until today when, after being outside for literally about a minute and a half, my snot froze solid. Unbelievable.

Sometimes, when I leave the law school to go down to State Street for some food, I like to cut through the humanities building. For those of you unfamiliar with the UW campus, the humanities is pretty much the ugliest building on campus. The only picture I could find is this one. As ugly as the building's exterior is, the inside makes the outside look like an architectural masterwork. The building is very utilitarian--it's all concrete, literally. It's as if they set up one big, intricate mold and poured concrete in. And it started molding over the second they finished building it.

Anyway, the building is warm as hell, so I like to walk through it on days when it's too cold outside to think. Today, one of the glass doors leading outside had about a quarter inch of frozen condensation on it. I had never seen that.

My point? It's fucking cold outside. This is crazy.