Angie is brilliant...can you switch off with the boyfriend ? You guys take turns.

Would love to - but the 35 min commute negates sharing or him biking. Most of what I need around town is within 2 miles, so driving 70 min twice a day to use the car seems overkill. I just need 2 months for the weather to simmer down

I know it sounds counterintuitive but I also find light cotton leggings comfortable when the mercury goes rocketing past the century.
Another suggestion is to carry one of those lightweight towels that dry extra quickly. I believe you can buy them at camping stores.

Everyone has given great advice.

I can only hope it cools down a little for you!

Ugh, I can so relate. It doesn't get -that- hot here (nor very humid), but I have very low heat-tolerance apparently. I often take a spare top to work so I can change there if I'm totally soaked (I walk or take the bus, no car). One thing I've found is that a tank top is much better at keeping myself cooled down that a t-shirt, even though the difference in the amount of body/skin covered isn't that great. Luckily I can dress as casual as I want for work, I can't imagine having to wear hose and/or suits in the summer, I don't think I could survive that.

I have no advice, but now I know I'm not the only person that thinks summer fashion with all the layers and jeans...boots...scarves....is hilarious, even up here in Michigan. Can't imagine it in Florida, yikes!

There is something you can do - but you will absolutely hate it at first: acclimatize. This is going to be kind of a long post while I explain...

I grew up in Florida, and lived all over the South - in the age of great A/C. So while I have always been used to the heat - I can really only take it in short bursts. But when we moved to Okinawa, our first summer there was one of the hottest they had had. Our house didn't have central A/C - just a couple of individual units (bedroom, tatami room), which ran constantly, but never really cooled things down. (82-85 degrees F) That first summertime electric bill was over $800 dollars American. We were beyond horrified at the prospect of 3-4 more months of this.

A friend of ours suggested acclimatizing. He and his wife had done it. In short, they eliminated as much air conditioning as they could from their lives. No AC in the car, no AC at home. He told us it took them about three weeks. Because of the very high humidity, they ran a dehumidifier every few days to get the moisture out of the house.

So we tried it. The only AC we used was at bedtime - but at a warmer temperature than we used to set it at. For daytime and riding in the car, we threw all the windows open. Work, shopping, etc. was unavoidable, but we lived without AC every chance we could.

The first week was wretched. I think I changed tops 3-4 times a day, and bottoms at least once. But it got easier over that three week period - and, just as our friend told us... we acclimatized. We were at a cookout about a month later, and it was in the 90's. Everyone around us looked ready to melt - and we were surprised to find we were barely sweating. So it really does work.

Our electric bill came waaaaaay down, and we didn't have any problems with molds because we ran a dehumidifier (it ran constantly the first 48 hours, then as it got the moisture out, we only had to run it every 2-3 days).

(Over the course of several years, the units were replaced with new, energy-efficient ones, and we would run the AC during the hottest part of the day, and at bedtime.)

I hope this helps!