Reason number 98036418736014 to move.

[icarus]

A little addition:

Top floor apartment (heat rises and how).
+ Brick oven building.
+ Western exposure.
+ Sunny, hot day.
+ Cat hiding in the (tile) bathroom, miserable.
+ A little late closing the drapes.
+ Computer by the window.
+ Half the day in over-airconditioned school.
= Yesterday.

I was at the computer and only felt a little warm. I was good, drinking water. Then... sudden wash fever, dizzy, had to lie down immediately. Kept drinking water as I woke up, but that was pretty much it.

We've measured the temps in the apartment on sunny summer afternoons. It does get between 90-100 even when it's only 80 outside. Normally I'm fine. But I bet this year's cool summer (until this week) plus spending all morning cold (long sleeves and we still froze at school) was not good.

I'm home from school today. Canceled one of my tutoring appointments although I can't reach my boss or the student for the other one.

I want to move. I want out of this tiny little brick oven. I want an apartment manager who doesn't leave tenants nasty notes. I want enough space for WG's backpacking stuff so that I'm not tripping over it. I want an apartment where we don't fry every summer. I want managers who don't turn off the heat on Christmas. I want room for a dresser. I want enough wall space for my books so they're no longer on the floor.

But right now, I'll settle for a milder headache, some Advil, and a glass of water.

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

It's brutal. I think I have the opposite problem - where I work is too air conditioned and yesterday I left early in part because between staring at the computer all day and not really eating for 30 hours and the extreme ac I was feeling really nauseated, dizzy, faint and just generally punk. As soon as I got outside and warmed up I felt better - when I went back in for something I'd forgotten I felt crap again.

I'm feeling crap again right now. It's so cold here I'm in pain. But in about half an hour I'm going to leave and start sweating buckets. I can't wait for this to break. And when you look for a new place, look for north-facing if it's possible. I'm on the third floor of a three-floor building of some kind of fire resistant stucco/stone...thing (not brick, at any rate) and in the mornings I'm usually snuggled into my afghan to warm up. It's been great this summer there. And I really think it's the north facing, since my last building was in basically the same place but southern facing (and brick-faced on part of it) and I was dying in the summers. Oddly, that was the building with both a tree and another building blocking some of the sunlight and it was still way warmer than this one.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think the extreme temp changes are probably very unhealthy.

Seattle is the sort of place where the summer heat isn't as much of a presence as the Fall/Winter/Spring grey rain. So north-facing is a prescription for depression for the rest of the year. But I think I'd like to stay away from brick buildings, and I wouldn't say no to eastern exposure either.

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear of your misery. When we lived in California I used to die in August/September. No AC...'cause we lived by the beach, who'd need it? So, so hot.

I actually live in AZ now, but at least we KNOW we're going to roast and have AC everywhere in expectation. I have a lovely yard that I never go in...too hot.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've never actually gotten sick from it before. Oddly, I had several people walk up to me and talk about being careful, like I was being forewarned, but I didn't listen.

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

Ha! Heat can be a killer, as you well know. It's always painful to sit in my cool little house and hear about the old folk in places like Chicago passing away for want of a window fan.

I'm glad you're feeling better.

[tonicollins.livejournal.com]

Yup, I hate heat. And this year we've had three week stretches of 100+ temps which is unusual for this area. It's definitely hot when a cat decides that the bathroom tile is a good place to be. I have soaked a washcloth in water and rubbed my cat down. She purrs like an idiot. *g* The other washcloths go behind my neck, over my face and in other hot spots.

All of this has cemented the fact that I'll never live in Las Vegas.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Summer's are usually in the 70-80s here, with temps spiking in our apartment. But normally I'm either:

a) working in an office until late, when temps have dropped (and WG has often advised me to stay at the office an extra hour or two to avoide the worst of it) or --
b) home in it all day, so I'm used to it. I probably started off dehydrated, too.

I'm going to try that washcloth trick on Monte kitty.