So hot I woke up in bed this morning on my back with my clothes sticking sweatily to my back when I got up. It's impossibly hot here. And we were told we had air conditioning when we got this apartment. Clearly in Massachusetts they have a different sort of air conditioning than I'm used to. They must be talking about your body's natural way of cooling itself, aka sweating. 'Cause that's all we do when we turn on the supposed "air conditioning" units in our bedrooms and in our front room. No cold air coming out of those things.Mostly warm air, kinda like it's sucking the hot air from outside and depositing it into our apartment.
Don't worry, Reed called our manager and left him a message about this problem, hoping that we really do have air conditioning. I'm fully expecting the call back from our manager to go a little something like this:
Me: "We were wondering how to turn on the air conditioning in our apartment. It seems like we just don't know how to do it because our house just gets hotter when we turn the switch we think we're supposed to turn.
Him: *laughing maniacally in his air conditioned office* "What do you mean? The air conditioning worked for the last tenant, I'm sure there's something simple to fix here. "
And he's probably thinking: "How can I stall so these people don't get upset that they really don't have air conditioning and that we lied to them from the beginning about the air conditioning?".
Here's hoping we really have air conditioning, otherwise, prepare for a WHOLE lot of posts about how it's hot. Or about how we had to go home to Idaho for the summer to live with people who DON'T have humidity and who DO have air conditioning.
POST EDIT: BREAKING NEWS EVERYONE!!!
I just asked one of my neighbors about the air conditioning. Apparently they will be giving us window units in May! We won't have to endure a hot sweaty interminable summer! Yay!!
Loving our ever changing, crazy, fantastic life
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Poor Alysa and Reed. It is REALLY hard to get good rest when it gets so hot and humid. I know. I feel for you both and sympathize. Hopefully those window units do the trick. In the meantime, I'll share my main trick... stick a fan in the window. I mean, like RIGHT in the window, as close to the screen as possible. Prop it or tape it or something if you need to. Then, during the day, have it turned so it's sucking the air FROM your house and blowing it OUT. Then, at night when it's hopefully a little cooler, turn the fan around and suck some of that less hot air back into your house.
And have another fan right at the end of your bed, blowing on you.
And take a shower right before bed and sleep with wet hair.
And get a cool, wet wash cloth and sleep with it on top of your forehead.
(You might be able to tell... I've been hot before, with no ac. And I've barely survived. ugh.)
GOOD LUCK!
Those are some good tips Kamber. I will use all of those tips, possibly tonight! :)
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