How cold do you feel?

[cjsmith]

I am firmly convinced that chilly is colder than cold. Cold hisses across your skin; chilly gets into your bones. Cold means a parka in the snow, and thin watery sunlight; chilly means trying to type with mittens in your office, and sniffles, and a deadline.

California has chilly. Of all the places I've lived*, northern California does chilly in the biggest way.

*eg Boston

(From a comment elsewhere.)

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Re: i think i might have had something to do with this. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

cold means you dress for the snow.

I think that's really it. Cold means you're prepared.

If it's COLD, you get a coat and you turn on the heat. If it's merely CHILLY, your house has no insulation whatsoever (because the people that built it had only been in this state during May and June) and the heat won't do a blasted thing.

Re: i think i might have had something to do with this. :-)

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

i'm with you. utterly.

in the north east (and other places, but i know the northeast) we PREPARE for snow.


halloween costumes are made to be, at the very least, *warm* if not insulating. that is the weather pattern.

when i was in college people would be wearing shorts once it hit 35F. i'm not *that* crazy, but come on... i live in san jose, california. it is winter. when it is 52F in my bedroom it counts as Fucking Cold!!!!!







right? :)

Re: i think i might have had something to do with this. :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

And on the days when we stay under 40, I can deal better. I just, as you say, dress for it. What I hate is wearing warm socks and a turtleneck and a sweater and bringing my down parka with the shell to work in the morning, then having to carry it all home, sweating, on BART at 3, when the temperature's 60.

Re: i think i might have had something to do with this. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely.

In New England we used to have a similar (though reversed) problem in the summers. Walking to work I'd get soaked with sweat, and then I'd spend the first hour in my office with deep shivers because they had the air conditioning set to fifty-nine and all my clothing was *wet*.