two to go

school started again last night. welcome to the world of cranky wednesdays! i know i'm cranky because EVERY FUCKING DRIVER on my commute to work did something to piss me off. i'm not a big road-rager, but, holy goat fuck, was i screaming this morning. oy! in better news, karen phoned me last night to tell me the t-shirt i bought her arrived, it fits perfectly and she loves it. that made me happy. there's something so satisfying about finding the perfect gift for someone. so, it's been about four days since the temperature stopped flirting with negative numbers and the rains have started to come down like noah used to know. i'll always choose rain over snow, but there's a new twist on temperature changes affecting my life. have i mentioned that the heat in my building is centrally controlled? the individual apartments have no thermostats. we're at the mercy of whatever the boiler is set to. well, it took pavel the super a week to catch up to the cold and turn the heat up (just when i'd gotten used to wearing flannel and furry slippers). now, four days after the thaw, my apartment is like a sauna. i have all my windows and the balcony door open just to take the edge off. my bedroom... well, it's a good thing i have all that new space in my bed so it's just a matter of rolling over to find a cool spot on the mattress during the night. i'm the kind of person that has to have a cold room to sleep in. i turn in to a furnace once i'm under the überblankie and it's a matter of survival to keep the ambient temperature outside of my downy cocoon very near chilly so i don't melt during the night. this reallycold/reallyhot yo-yo i'm living in is starting to get to me. i guess i should just remind myself that this time last year i was in the same situation, but it was because controlling the craptastic electric baseboard heater was like trying trying to wrangle cats. but at least i could turn the goddamn heat off at night!