So one of the recommendations for water conservation during our water main shutdown is to limit showers to five minutes. This isn’t that hard to do; I can run the water to rinse, turn it off to soap/shampoo, then turn it on to rinse again. The problem is that I have so completely destroyed my body’s ability to regulate its temperature that as soon as the water is off after rinsing the first time, I am

SO
RIDICULOUSLY
COLD

Like, it’s still pretty warm here, both during the day and overnight, and I usually am quite warm when I get done running. But I cannot handle that little change in temperature that comes from having wet skin in the shower. I literally start shivering like I’m out in the middle of one of our -30 snaps.

I’m pretty sure if I had to do this in the winter I’d die.

Can’t wait until the water’s back.