as a georgia resident, i'd like to testify: that's damn hot (too hot to go barefoot, for sure).

thanks, natalie--i knew it was hot enough to melt stuff, particularly a ladies' heart, but i'm glad to get the temp scoop from an actual resident. though i hear that the concrete on georgia campuses doesn't get as hot as asphalt.

that's because concrete is whitish and reflects the heat, unlike the black asphalt that absorbs heat.

i'll corroborate that as well. this is why, when traveling shoeless from dorm (or now, office) to car, you can walk flat-footed to the parking lot and then must tiptoe/dance to the car. not that i'd ever walk around without shoes. that'd be gross. er, right.

thats as good as "I was driving home and my 84 AMC Eagle was slipping along the road like a sweaty ass on silk sheets" and "I pull over to the side to put the ol snow cables on. For about 20 minutes, I bumbled and fumbled around with them like a 17 year old Quake enthusiast trying to get his sister's bra off" both of which are by EWU's own Steven Wilbur

in the "as hot as" vein, i adore "as hot as 2 rats fucking in a wool sock (behind a dryer, optional)." a nashville import into this knoxville girl's idiom bank.