This Is Hell!

Alabama is -- you may have heard -- kinda hot. And humid. It's well into the nineties today; it's been hot all week but this is the first day the humidity has really kicked in.

I'm an indoors kind of guy, and I have one of the ultimate indoors careers: I'm a librarian. Unfortunately, the air conditioning in the library is mostly broken. I'm in the cataloging room, which has its own unit, but in most of the building, it's extremely uncomfortable. I checked the thermostat (which does work) and it says it's 87 degrees on the first floor. You can imagine what it's like upstairs.

What does this mean for me? Well, I have to go upstairs to get books to catalog. And I can't. It's just impossible to do anything in the stacks right now except simply exist. I can make one dash upstairs in the morning, that's about it. (Man, am I whiny.)

Oh, and you can imagine what the heat and humidity are doing for the bindings of the books. Anyone looking for scrap paper?