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Today, I arrived at the office for the fourth day in a row covered in a thin film of salty body moisture, huffing like I'd just completed a challenge on a reality show set in a jungle. When I got in, all of my co-workers agreed that it was very gross outside, before we started speculating about what would happen in the final season of Breaking Bad.
What is this unpleasantness now? As a Millennial stationed in the creative class, it is a tad perplexing. I am entitled never to have to sweat, as I have learned from think pieces in prestigious magazines. But I am also connected and plugged-in and more likely to use social media than drive a car. So I want to share with my network some of the things that I have learned about this unfortunate heat wave that is apparently peaking today that I have read about on the internet.
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A Google Image search reveals that there are actually people outside right now, even though it is literally a hundred degrees. What they're doing out there is unclear, but it must be pretty important, otherwise they'd be in air-conditioned places working on their computers like everyone else.
And maybe this helps? That's a NASA image depicting the scale of the heat wave, which currently stretches from the Northeast to the Midwest. This heat wave is apparently so big you can see it from space. When I share NASA images with my networks, they typically get a lot of likes.
This is good. It's L-degrees, a subway temperature monitor that tells you how hot it is on each of the stops along the creative class's commuter line of choice, the L train. But just on the L train, because where else are you going, midtown?