Every time I walked into a new concrete government building, it felt like the air conditioning system was 5 times larger than it needed to be.
Today, I didn’t go to work. I feel really good about it. I needed a break from my extremely stressful work environment, where everything has been going wrong for several months now. I can’t remember the last time that we had a single week without complete disaster. It seems like every time I turn around, something new has broken down or we have a new product recall on our hands. Meanwhile, upper management is nowhere to be found. I’ve been dealing with everything on my own, and and in the meantime my own life has been going haywire. I haven’t had a chance to take care of my own adult responsibilities. That’s why I got to spend this morning running two different government buildings in an attempt to get a new license and car registration. It was quite a hot and cold ordeal, let me tell you. The outdoor air temperature today is somewhere around 100 degrees. The sun is shining, and the heat is intense. Meanwhile, every single government building in this city seems to be under a polar vortex warning. Every time I walked into a new concrete government building, it felt like the air conditioning system was 5 times larger than it needed to be. Every cooling system was blasting on level 11. The Ice Cold Air streaming from the air vents was literally powerful enough to blow my hair back. After walking in and out several times, I was both drenched in sweat and shivering in the intense cooling system. Eventually, I was so thoroughly cold that I had goosebumps for 4 hours after leaving – and I didn’t get my license or registration completed.