August 12, 2010

Well, this is the last post for my little project. Oddly enough, it is also my 100th post. Anyway, here's the last picture taken from my awesome 10th floor dorm room. I will never get a view like this from a dorm room ever again, so I was happy to enjoy it while it lasted. The second picture was my mother's idea. It's a picture back towards my dorm (the white-ish building with all the windows) from the front steps of the Capitol Building. We wanted to take a picture from the top floor back towards campus, but they are doing construction on the north side of the building.

Anyway, it was an extremely hot moving day, but we got it all done. Now, I'm back in Grand Island for a week before the fall semester starts up again. I'm really looking forward to the fall (especially football season), it's just too bad I have such a crappy view out of my new dorm room. I get to look at the side of another building and a parking lot rather than the downtown Lincoln skyline. Oh, well...

August 11, 2010

Alas, it is my last night staying in my summer dorm. I took my final for my second summer class this morning. I will be shocked if I got anything other than an A. That class, honestly, was a joke. I've never taken such an easy math class in my life. After that, it was all packing and cleaning in preparation for my move tomorrow. It was another super hot day, but the humidity plummeted, so it didn't feel nearly as awful as yesterday.

Anyway, only one more picture remains! I will be very sad to leave my awesome view behind.

August 10, 2010

It was a scorcher today. I think it even felt a little worse than yesterday. I'm not sure if the temperature was higher, but the humidity sure was. Anyway, it was completely clear and sunny all day, and it was completely miserable to go anywhere outside during the afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised to see some cool thunderheads right around the time the sun was setting. It seems like there hasn't been anything interesting to photograph in the direction of the Capitol Building recently, so it was a nice change. The clouds were pretty epic right as the sun set.

Anyway, I only have two more days in this dorm before I must part from this lovely view. I hope I get some more interesting photo opportunities before I have to check out...

August 9, 2010

It was freakin' hot today. It was around 96 degrees with a heat index of 111 degrees. Ridiculous. That being said, it was still a good day. I had my last shift of the summer, so I am now work free for the time being. Before long, I will be moving out of my dorm room with this awesome view and into a room on the first floor with no view at all...

August 8, 2010

This picture illustrates what it looked like outside pretty much all day: sunny and totally clear. It was also humid and incredibly hot. I know it got to at least 98 degrees and that's not taking the heat index into account. Still, despite the heat, it was a good day. A relaxing Sunday that was blissfully work free. Unfortunately, I must now focus on both packing to move out of my summer dorm this Thursday and studying for my final on Wednesday. On the bright side, my last shift of the summer is tomorrow! Everything is coming to an end, and, as usual, it's a bittersweet moment. Though I'm ready to been done with work and this class, I'm a little sad that the summer flew by so quickly...

August 7, 2010

What a magnificent day. A day of total freedom. I got off of my last duty shift at 7 a.m. this morning, walked back to my dorm, and went straight back to bed for another couple hours. After that, I was free to do whatever the heck I wanted. It was awesome having a day where I had absolutely nothing that I had to do. I spent a great deal of time outside, even though the temperature reached 90 and the heat index was fairly high.

Tomorrow might be an interesting day. The temperature is supposed to be near 100, and the humidity should push heat indexes well beyond the 100 degree mark. I think there may even be a chance of storms. My only hope is that tomorrow--unlike last Sunday--the air conditioning does not fail us.

August 6, 2010

It's Friday!!! It was a relatively nice day. It was hot--but not overly humid--and sunny. I had class, was able to get pretty much all of my homework done during the afternoon, and then I had my last overnight duty shift of the summer. Then this weekend, for the first time in forever, I have both days of the weekend completely off. I honestly can't remember the last time that happened. I've felt like I'm in a perpetual work/school week since conferences kicked in back in June. The break is coming just in time, too. As we've entered these past couple weeks of the summer, I've been able to feel everyone's will to work diminishing...

August 5, 2010

I was up bright and early this morning to see a clear and humid morning. The day really wasn't hot at all. I think the temperature topped out in the upper 80's, which practically feels arctic after all of the hot and humid days we've had this summer. It was also nice and dry, so it was a great change of pace. Overall, it was a lovely day that ended with a lovely sunset. Some clouds moved in around 7 p.m., so I feared that the sunset would be a bust for the third or fourth night in a row, but it cleared off enough to provide some great colors and reflections off the clouds. It was a very long-lasting, beautiful sunset. I'm not sure what you call those spotty clouds that are shown in the pictures, but those made it a particularly interesting sunset to witness.

August 4, 2010

Well, I woke up this morning to my least favorite view: mist and fog obscuring downtown Lincoln. I was too lazy to take a picture at that point, but it was similar to other times the humidity has been extremely high this summer. Anyway, it was exactly the kind of weather I hate most. These past couple summers have made me want to declare war on humidity. It is truly disgusting and I hate it.

Fortunately, by early afternoon (excuse the crappy picture), the sky had cleared and the humidity went with it. It dropped from 96% humidity when I woke up this morning to about 60% humidity in a very short period of time. This worked out great for me because I did not want to have to attend the end-of-summer staff banquet with a frizzed-out nest of hair on top of my head. So, though the day got off to a less than wonderful start, it ended up not being so bad.

August 3, 2010

Well, today was another hot and humid day, but not as hot and humid as yesterday, so I was happy. We also had air conditioning for the entire day, so it took some of the suffering away. The clouds started moving in as it got later in the evening, and now it looks like we could have a small pop-up thunderstorm heading our way. It's tiny, but it's bright red on radar and heading straight towards Lincoln. As I type this, I can see lightning outside my window. I don't care if it storms as long as it doesn't knock out the power/air conditioning again...

August 2, 2010

So, after spending all day yesterday and all night in the sweltering heat of my room, I woke up to find that...the room temperature had risen overnight. It was 79 degrees when I went to bed, and it was 80 degrees when I woke up. I had a fan running and the window open all night, but it did nothing to cool off my room. I ended up sleeping on top of my bed rather than in it, and though I got some sleep, it wasn't comfortable. One of my coworkers was so desperate last night that she stole the big fan from restroom and took it to her room for the night. Everyone was dying from the heat, and I don't think anyone slept well.

To add to the misery, our showers produced scalding water. Heat seemed to be involved with everything in this building, so I ended up leaving for class about five minutes earlier than usual. I couldn't wait to sit in a math class for an hour and a half just so I could be in an air conditioned room. I encountered a coworker on my way there, and we decided that if the A/C wasn't fixed by the time we got back that we would call someone to complain. Much to our dismay, two hours later, we arrived at our dorm to find that the temperature had risen even more. My room was now 82 degrees and felt like a tropical rainforest. However, just as we called to find someone to whine to, we noticed that cool air had begun blowing from the vents. I've never been so happy about the A/C in my life.

The glorious moment that the A/C was fixed was around noon today, and since then the A/C has still not caught up completely. It is now 71 in my room, so there are still three degrees to go until it reaches my customary 68 degrees. I think my room will finally cool down just in time for bed. I think this process would have been a lot faster if it hadn't been extremely hot and humid today and if we didn't all live on the top two floors (heat rises, you know). I'm still incredibly grateful to whoever came around and fixed the A/C. I think my staff members and I would have had an uprising if we had to face another night in 80+ degree heat... Heads would have rolled.

August 1, 2010

Alas, July is over, and we have entered the final stretch of summer vacation. Mother Nature kicked August off with a fairly hot (about 87) and dry day. The weather really wasn't bad, but I didn't enjoy the day as much as I could have due to the fact that our dorm's air conditioner stopped working at 9 a.m. The temperature in my room topped out at 79 degrees in late afternoon, so it wasn't exactly pleasant. I had a fan running, but that didn't do much more than circulate the hot air. Unfortunately, today also happens to be a Sunday, so there were no facilities repair people around to fix the problem. Not a good situation...

Anyway, as I said, it wasn't a bad day otherwise. There was even a pretty cool orange sunset that I had the opportunity to photograph.