The Incoherent Ravings of My Fevered Brain
In an ideal world, the temperature in my bedroom would never climb above 65 degrees. Unfortunately, this is only the case in the spring, after my landlord shuts the heating off, and in the fall, before he turns it back on. In the winter I roast, since the lady in the frozen little downstairs apartment leaves the thermostat set in the 80s (this is the same lady responsible for smoking me out of my house earlier this year). In the summer I have a dilemma. Uncontrolled, my room will easily remain above 80 degrees all night, leaving me to flop around on my sheets like a sweaty fish until the sun rises and it’s time to get up again. On the other hand, my crappy window-mounted air conditioner is very noisy, and if I run it all night I end up so dehydrated I can hardly stand up the next morning.
This is the situation I’m living with at the moment. This is why I’m exhausted all the time, and why I’ve taken to shambling around everywhere like a poleaxed zombie. This is the reason for the massive amounts of coffee I’ve been swilling (for the exhaustion), the gallons of water I’ve been drinking (for the dehydration) and for my short temper. When I’m about to despair, though, a sweet voice of hope and reason comes to me:
“This is only June,” it whispers. “You ain’t even seen hot yet. Just wait till August gets here!”
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Move to Seattle.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
The Pacific Northwest is looking mighty attractive right now, that’s for sure. Unfortunately, even though I hate heat, I crave sunlight, and Seattle’s skies are cloudy over two hundred days of the year. I’m not sure I could live under those conditions.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
ugh! that is SAD!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Alaska?
;)
At least the call center never rises above 50 degrees in the summer…
June 25th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
This is true. The call center has a climate all its own.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I think you’d rather like Seattle (or Portland). They’re both full of cute indie-rock loving, book reading, three day beard growth sporting, clunky glasses wearing gay boys. Seattle ranks #2 to S.F. for percentage of the city that identifies as LGBT (at 12.9%). The gray days can be a downer, but the summers are grand (and the temperature rarely goes much over 80), and everyone appreciates the sunny winter days more.
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
And they both have great public libraries… hmm.