I have a really hot body. It's not that I'm extraordinarily active all the time, but the amount of heat that I produce sometimes leads me to believe that I could be classified as some kind of thermonuclear device and put on active duty. I get very hot walking to work in the morning, even when wearing short sleeves while others (obviously native Californians) don the latest wool peacoat regalia from J. Crew. Oh, and don't get me started on people who use their fireplaces when it hits 50 degrees (totally uncalled for.)

I get hot standing at a CD station in Virgin Megastore, reading magazines in Borders, and lying perfectly still while trying to fall alseep. If I were one of those space heaters that they sell in Brookstone, I'd be the one that looks completely innocuous but can put out 43,000 BTU with a built-in clock that runs off of the atomic clock in Colorado.