so yes, most days that you stay home, sleep late if you want, create your own schedule (within reason and due dates, of course), life is pretty damn sweet.and then there are 90+ degree days in New York City.
without a/c.
sure, I'm from the South, and though any full-time living there is just about a decade and a half in the rearview mirrow, I think I've got enough 90+ days (months of 28 days out of 30), enough days of running 10+ miles in that kind of heat, that I like to think I've built up some kind of immunity.
and to an extent I have.
but the bad days in New York - usually no more than three to five days every summer - are a different animal indeed.
whether it's all the people or all the machinery underground or that kind of overwhelming claustrophobic sense, some days are really just short of unbearable.
solutions that help but really don't do the entire trick: lots of liquids (Mtn Dew and Gatorade in my case), multiple cold (well, cool, not cold, really - I just can't do cold) showers and, in really, really bad situations, multiple trips to the frozen foods section of the local grocer (you have never seen someone take so long to decide on ice cream).
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