warm, and cold

[jazzfish]

It's been Hot (upwards of 30C) all weekend. I mostly didn't notice it here because I've been over at Rainbow House, playing boardgames for Zee's birthday week celebration. Yesterday they started up their cold robot / portable AC, and it made the greenhouse-like main room (lots of south- and west-facing windows) tolerable-to-pleasant.

I turned on my own cold robot for an hour or so when I got home last night. I turned it off before I went to bed since the outside was down below 20C and that seemed reasonable. I then had trouble sleeping due to the warm and stuffy bedroom (window choices mean that there's not really a way to put the AC in the bedroom). So today I'm running it all day.

It is noisy and the vent hose is incredibly finicky, but I am not sitting staring at the wall with my brain melting out my ears from heat. It's actually quite comfortable in here. Score one for tiny apartments.

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I dunno. Weekend before last I went up to see Erin, and that was really good except where it wasn't, and it's not yet clear how the "wasn't" will shake out. I'm beginning to run into social constraints around People Who Aren't Speaking To Me, and that's frustrating enough in the moment that I wonder if I should have just moved to Victoria or somewhere instead and started completely over. And yesterday marked five years since I broke up with Emily, and that's also got me moody and introspective.

People are always the hardest part. I can set up my space precisely how I want it and truly love inhabiting it, and still get lonely and restless. Guess it's getting on time to do something about that.

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[reedrover]

People are always the hardest part. I can set up my space precisely how I want it and truly love inhabiting it, and still get lonely and restless.

Yes. I totally agree with both of these statements. I adore my house, my space, my hobbies, my pets... and I'm still horribly lonely at times.

[jazzfish]

"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

-D. Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[shanaqui]

We're starting to consider a portable AC... not that we get a lot of use for it in the UK, but our flat is so miserable in the heat because it has almost no ventilation. ANYWAY. The point is, hurrah that you have a cold robot and it helped!

People are always the hardest part. I can set up my space precisely how I want it and truly love inhabiting it, and still get lonely and restless. Guess it's getting on time to do something about that.

I haaate this part.

[jazzfish]

I had basically never lived anywhere without AC until 2011 (it's practically a death sentence in the US South). Luckily 2011 was a cool summer in Vancouver. But when June 2012 rolled around I said "this is awful," and my ex agreed and went out and bought the portable. Also luckily I got custody of it in the divorce. It's only useful for like four weeks a year at the absolute max... but it is a godsend for those few weeks.

PEOPLE, UGH. Also needing people, UGH.