If You Can't Stand The Heat...

Jessie's latest post inspired me to write a new one myself.


First thing: I can relate on the cold front. We at 1636 Grant St have unanimously decided to abstain from using our heat until Winter Quarter. Unanimously is actually a bit of an exaggeration; I don't think Robin is as ecstatic about it as Nick and I (and Jake is free of opinion- what a shocker). This decision was made based on a couple things:

• We like to make some serious hypothetical jokes about the house that include: instigating a cock-fight between Scuba and Pomquisha, extending our lease through 2010 so we can make bank off of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver by turning our humble heat-free only-one-shower abode into a phat hostel, leaving Jake out of every possible scenario/decision involving the house/roommates because he is not on the lease and therefore technically "not a real roommate" but a "squatter" or "Unofficial Roommate Number One" (Cody is number 2), and several other hilarious crazy ideas that Nick and Robin and I come up with that I can't recall right now. But obviously, a heat free house and the suffering that would undoubtedly result from it is one of them.
• We have to pay a water/sewer bill on top of everything else so we figure we'll just not use the heat and that way our bills will be cheaper.
• Our house is a giant hole-in-your-wallet when it comes to potentially heating it. There are sooo many things that would attribute to sucking any heat we put into the house out of it, such as the unfinished room upstairs (Scubas room, basically like a black hole to the outside world), the front door (total bullshit: very drafty and chock full of plexy-glass instead of real glass), the basement (a second black hole), the windows (have no curtains = no insulation), etc etc etc.
• Two birds with one stone. Check this out: If we don't heat our house all winter, then we potentially don't have to use our fridge either, we can just store food in our unbearably cold house, and thus save money by unplugging the fridge! Still haven't worked out the freezer part yet, but I'm thinking that the basement will have something to do with it.

(Hey that was pretty cool: longest rant about Why Not To Use Your Heat in the history of time!)

Second thing: Your second paragraph, Jessie, totally took me back to when I was in Sweden. One of my favorite things to do in the Winter when everyone else was in class (I was only in school %60 of the time) was to plug in my headphones to some Ella that I picked up from the local library and stroll around the oh-so-cute cobblestone gatans of downtown Malmö and just revel in the fact that I was in fucking awesome EUROPE and how tight it was. My advice: take advantage of that, do it as often as you can, because it's not the same in Bellingham.

Anyway, I am so happy for you guys to be hanging out this week. Have a drink (or two or three) for me!

( ... I got an 87% on the first test in Tsunokais class. WHAT!! ... )