It is hot here.
Being from South Carolina, it takes a lot for me to admit it when I'm feeling uncomfortably warm. But if you were here right now, you'd find me sitting on the double bed in my 8' x 5' bedroom, sweat running down my face, back, and stomach, covers thrown to the side. According to weather.com, it is currently 87 degrees outside, and I have no air conditioner, or even a fan. In short: it is absolutely sweltering in my one-bedroom West Villiage apartment.
About fifteen minutes ago, I convinced myself that it would be worth getting up (which was harder than usual given the heat) to try to cool things down in my bedroom. My first idea was to move the only air conditioner in the apartment, a groaning and vibrating old window-unit, from its current location in the living room to the bedroom. No luck - I found it securely bolted in place. Worse, even if I could have managed to lug it down the hall to the bedroom, it refused to turn on anyway. This meant that Idea #2, sleeping in the living room, wasn't a viable alternative to the boiling hot bedroom after all.
My final "solution" was to open my bedroom window to let in more moving air. The window was already cracked a little, so I knew it could probably be raised without much effort. A strange spiky contraption held it in its current position, approximately an inch and a half above the window frame. I lifted the window easily, but it wouldn't stay up on its own. I was busy wondering what I could put between the window and the frame to make it stay open when I saw a massive rat on the other side of the screen, staring eagerly at the bedside lamp in my room. I screamed and dropped the window. I suddenly understood the usefulness of the spikes sticking out of the inch and a half crack in the window. There would be no outside breezes wafting into my room tonight!
Basically, Operation Cool Air was a miserable failure. My first day of work is tomorrow and I only hope that I can somehow get some sleep tonight. Tomorrow's goal: purchase a large fan.
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