I voted most hate for August. By that point, it’s been darn hot for two months, and another month before I’ll expect any sort of cooling. The days are near their peak length, making it hard to get to sleep (light so late, and so early) on top of the heat when I’m being responsible with my use of A/C.
Not to mention, it’s too hot to cook half of my favorite dishes, or more that are too heavy to eat in said heat. I’m a Spring/Autumn person, so I voted for April as my favorite. Maybe a single snowstorm or two left at that point, but unlikely to be any major shoveling, days are a good medium length, and trends to pleasant weather continue.
My house has three heating zones, and the thermostat in two of the zones can be varied by time of day/day of week.
I picked the temperature i set for “rooms i sit quietly in during the day”. But i keep my bedroom cooler, especially at night, and i sometimes crank up the heat in my bedroom right before i shower.
Our main thermostat is set to 62° in the winter, unless we have guests coming over. I think we have the two radiant heat zones set to 62.5°, but whatever.
I have a Per, Tryggve, and an Erna in my Swedish family, but I guess their names aren’t even all that popular in Sweden.
I picked October as my favorite month because, in Albuquerque at least, it’s usually finally cooled down enough to enjoy the outdoors, but the plants are still green. It used to be September, but it looks like we won’t be seeing those days again. And although I dislike June for the heat, February is worse because I’m sick of winter but there’s still a month of it to go.
My experience has been that much of the time ‘low fat,’ ‘low sodium’, or ‘gluten-free’ versions of food end up tasting like something essential has been sacrificed or that some significant compromise has been necessary in its making. I’ll stick to smaller quantities of the Real Thing in most cases.
Smaller quantities of the real thing; or ordinary quantities, but less often.
Didn’t vote in the temperature poll because a) it depends both on time of day and on how active I’m being and b) I adjust what temperature I want to be in more by how close I am to the wood stove than by what the thermostat’s set at – the thermostat will be set low enough that it won’t usually come on unless the wood stove has burned down, such as late at night or when I’ve gone somewhere; but I may be somewhere in the house that’s close to 60 or somewhere that’s close to 80. I prefer some variation.
I’m in Ohio now so my answers would be different if I were still in Florida. Now I voted November as my least fave because it’s kind of the worst of all worlds: fall colors are gone, pretty chilly by now, but not cold enough for snow to fall and remain very often (once so far, and the forecast just changed for Wed from snow to rain). January and February now have me psyched, esp. once I buy my skis (I’m half Swedish sue me), but in Florida years ago at least I’d have voted January. I’ve mentally adjusted to the temps here now tho, note. But one reason I moved is that the Florida summers were simply and slowly becoming more and more unbearable. Years ago we could keep the front and back doors of our beachside condo open to the seabreeze, and it was perfectly bearable pretty much all day all summer long. So if I were still there this year, August would be my least fave.
April rules in both locations tho, but here I may bump that up to May.
Re: student.
If you’ve got evidence of the numerous traits and behaviors that show that he would be highly reckless and dangerous in the position, don’t hire him.
…else hire him.
Amend contracts for future programs.
I’m mostly in @pjd’s camp about the student who demands hiring. If you’ve got evidence, let them sue. You (and presumably the company you world for) would rather fight the hiring lawsuit than the one 6 months later when their recklessness / behavior gets people killed and they recover said evidence in the discovery phase!
If you don’t have evidence, or it’s all circumstantial, it gets murkier, but as @puzzlegal points out, why are you responsible for the contract? If you didn’t write it, pass it up the chain, and make sure you document (back to evidence) your reservations and WHY. If they STILL hire the risk, then yeah, as PG says, start liquidating that stock and look for a new job prior to the inevitable lawsuits.
But I’d rather leave it with a lawsuit because that student wasn’t hired, than with a lawsuit because they were hired and then killed somebody (whose family then sued.)
Closest I ever came to running out of gas was intentional. GPS said I had 11 miles to home. My car dashboard readout said I had 11 “miles to go.” I decided to see if I could make it. My dash readout turned from 1 to 0 as I pulled into the gas station 3 blocks from my house.
In 51 years of driving, I’ve never run out of gas. I spent two years, in high school, driving an old Jeep Wagoneer which had a non-functional gas gauge; I had a fair idea of how many miles I could get on a tank, and made sure that I never pushed it too far.
I did run out of gas as a stupid teenager, but I wasn’t stranded because I was less than a block from my parents house. I kept putting off buying gas until that day, thinking I surely must have enough to make it to the nearest gas station since the “low fuel” light hadn’t come on yet (it turned out that particular car didn’t have a low fuel light). So I pulled out of the driveway, starting driving up the hill away from the house, and the car died. So I put the car in neutral and coasted back down the hill back home.