Spare the Campair

Scorcher! The hot weather we've been having in San Francisco is especially hot in my apartment. The back wall of my apartment faces east. On that side is the kitchen and bathroom windows. I cover them during the day to keep it cooler, but it doesn't matter. My apartment is so poorly insulated that the walls on the entire side of my cottage get hot. In the lazy Susan in the kitchen, which touches on that wall, peanut butter turns liquidy and cans of food get warm. In the bathroom medicine cabinet, my toothpaste and skin cream heat up and get runny. In the living room, my aquarium heat up an extra two degrees during the day. I've started shutting my bedroom closet door to keep the heat in that pocket rather than releasing it into my office.

In the afternoon, the sun comes in from the other side of the building, where most of the windows are. This effect isn't as bad though, as there are buildings blocking most of the direct sunlight, but still there isn't even any cool air until 6PM. At that point I turn on the fans to try to suck as much cool air in as I can before it gets dark.

Because after dark, having the windows open attracts all sorts of bugs, and it's really not fair that I have a spider problem in my one-bedroom apartment. It's the price you pay for princely lodgings I guess...