Hot in Here...

My apartment has what I call a “hands-off” heating system; there’s a single pipe with hot water/steam that runs from the floor to the ceiling. The heat came on back in October, and I don’t expect it to be turned off until sometime in April. This always-on, uncontrollable heating system combined with my apartment’s ovenlike heat-trapping capabilities ensures that it’s always quite warm in here. Usually, I can open my window and manage to make it bearable, but in the past few days, it’s been warm enough during the days (and more importantly, during the nights as well) that it’s been next to impossible to cool off my apartment.

I’m running the air conditioner at the moment. At night. In February. Wow.