I hate the cold. I really truly hate it. To me, cold is 40 degrees. I'm uncomfortable at 70 degrees, chilly at 68, and cold at anything lower. And then this morning I wake up and my phone tells me that it's in the negatives. -12 degrees. I think the weatherman is trying to torture me. My friend, who lives a little further north, sent me a picture of her thermostat that said -20 degrees. WAY TOO COLD. I can't wait to move south. Even in the south it doesn't get quite this cold. I can handle the cold of the south. I can even handle the heat and humidity of the south. The forecast for Charleston, SC says there will be a high of 66 degrees today. 66 degrees! In December. That's my version of heaven. I don't like having to wear ten thousand layers of clothes just to stay warm. My classroom is a balmy 68 degrees right now, which wouldn't be too bad, except for the cold air coming out of the vents that makes the room seem more like it's 62 degrees. I'm wearing leggings under my pants because I'm so cold. I don't think I can add too many more layers. By the end of the day, I will be wrapped up in my fleece jacket liner, for sure. Probably by 2nd period to be realistic. I need to find someway to trick the thermostat into blowing warm air into the room. I want to put cheese sticks over the air intake part of the thermostat so that it will think the room is a lot colder than it actually is. I just need to buy some cheese sticks...but it's too cold to go grocery shopping. All I want to do is go home and curl up in every single blanket I own. I have one, two, three, four, I think five, blankets on my bed right now. And a space heater that I run at night that sits right next to my bed. That's how cold my apartment is. I have a space heater downstairs too that I'll run when I'm in the living room. Some day, I will have an apartment that has really awesome heat so I don't have to worry about being cold all the time. But if(when) I move to SC, I won't have to worry about the heat as much. My poor apartment right now is struggling to stay warm, just like me. At least the heat in this apartment is actually on. I can't imagine how cold my old apartment would be on a day like today. When it got really cold at my old apartment, the heat wouldn't even come on at all and I had to rely on the heat from the apartment below mine. Sometimes I would turn my oven on and just run it without baking anything because it heated my apartment up. My electric bill wasn't too bad then. I also ran one of my space heaters, and that's what ate up my electricity. But I will pay to be warm. I don't care. Big Lots is really cold too. I'm glad I don't have to work there today. I can't imagine how cold the front of the store is, even with that dinky little space heater running. It's pretty sad that the three places I spend the most time in: my classroom, my apartment, and Big Lots are ALWAYS SO COLD. I feel like I will never be warm again. I'm just going to live in my Spandex leggings and my flannel shirts...underneath all the other layers of course. It's a good thing I'm subbing right now because I can almost afford my electric bill...
Time to go look for jobs in the Carolinas...maybe something will be available in March or April and I can just go after I finish teaching here...
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