I love summer. I love the heat, I love the sun, I love being warm.

But, funny thing is, I'm NEVER WARM in the summer!! I'm always freezing my butt off because everyone loves air conditioning so much! Ugh. I hate it.

I hear people endlessly complaining about how cold it is all winter, yet, as soon as it hits 20 degrees outside, people crank the A/C up so high (or down so low, depending on how you look at it) that I need to go outside to warm up. What gives? It's not that I don't appreciate a cool interior when it's hot outside. It's just that people take it too far. Do we really need it that cold? Can't we compromise a little bit? I don't want it turned off, just turned down a little.

And don't tell me to wear a sweater. I do have a cardigan or a shrug that I keep to cover my arms and provide some warmth when I'm inside. But part of enjoying summer means being able to wear capris and short sleeved shirts for the short time that I can. Even with my sweaters, I get cold. My hands and feet freeze after being in the office for an hour.

I don't expect that this will change. I've faced this in every office I've worked in, each car I've traveled in that isn't mine, and in other people's homes. But I haven't stopped resenting the fact that our summers are so short, yet I spend a large part of the season feeling cold. It sucks.