too damn hot
Jun. 30th, 2015 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThe temp broke thirty ("ninety") on Friday, and looks to do the same all this week. Thank gord we bought a portable air conditioner a few years back. That's enough to keep the living room bearable, mostly. It's also enough to make the lights flicker.
The real problem -- one of the real problems -- AMONG the real problems with this apartment are that its wall of windows faces southeast, so it gets all the morning sun. It's large enough that if there's a breeze we can open all the windows and get some airflow and it's not too bad... but it turns out that's a big If.
THIS IS NOT WHAT I MOVED TO CANADIA FOR.
Turns out I don't function well, or at all, in the heat. Since sometime last week I've spent most of my time at home sitting/lying on the couch, reading or poking at the internet, despite there being things I would really like to do: write, viola, email, planning, applying for jobs, all that stuff. I consistently sit down for five minutes, and then end up not quite dozing off but unable to get up the energy to do anything else. And then eventually the sun goes down and I think "oh, wow, i was actually way too warm, i should do something about that for tomorrow." I can't tell when I'm getting too warm, is the thing. It creeps up on me and I'm vaguely uncomfortable and sluggish but that's about it, and it slows my brain down enough that making that connection becomes difficult.
Bleh.
The real problem -- one of the real problems -- AMONG the real problems with this apartment are that its wall of windows faces southeast, so it gets all the morning sun. It's large enough that if there's a breeze we can open all the windows and get some airflow and it's not too bad... but it turns out that's a big If.
THIS IS NOT WHAT I MOVED TO CANADIA FOR.
Turns out I don't function well, or at all, in the heat. Since sometime last week I've spent most of my time at home sitting/lying on the couch, reading or poking at the internet, despite there being things I would really like to do: write, viola, email, planning, applying for jobs, all that stuff. I consistently sit down for five minutes, and then end up not quite dozing off but unable to get up the energy to do anything else. And then eventually the sun goes down and I think "oh, wow, i was actually way too warm, i should do something about that for tomorrow." I can't tell when I'm getting too warm, is the thing. It creeps up on me and I'm vaguely uncomfortable and sluggish but that's about it, and it slows my brain down enough that making that connection becomes difficult.
Bleh.
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Date: 2015-06-30 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-07-01 12:45 am (UTC)For outdoors and high hydration-loss environments, your beverage should be no more than vaguely cool or you won't drink enough. For living room use, iced tea (or refrigerated tea, brewed in a jar on the balcony/windowsill) works well.
Your mileage, as they say... Good luck. Summer is stupid & ought to be tightly regulated.
*values of ick may range from unmotivated to hating everything.
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Date: 2015-07-03 06:49 pm (UTC)(This is probably related to needing more practice in personal-physical-plant-maintenance and general self-diagnosis/self-care.)
Summer is stupid & ought to be tightly regulated.
Agreed, so so much.
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Date: 2015-06-30 07:31 pm (UTC)My mom tells the story of having the vast luxury of a window air conditioner in their flat-roofed house in southern CA back in the 1960's, and how all of their friends would come over to hang out in the bedroom and soak up the a/c. They passed the time playing cards.
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