Soppy, wet, disgusting summer.

I just want to report that weather-wise this has been a miserable summer.  I haven't posted much or taken pictures because I'm too busy melting.  It's not that it's been hot.  The weather has been fairly cool for summer.  It's the blasted humidity.  I cannot stress enough, how much I hate the humidity!  I feel like a wet dish-rag all of the time.  There is nothing more disgusting than standing on a subway platform waiting for a train while a river runs down your back.  Gross.

And to make matters worse, I can't get air conditioning. There is only one available window in my living/bedroom and that's the window to the fire escape.  I can't get a non-window unit air-conditioner because this would require leaving the window partially open while I cool the room, and I am not sleeping with a window partially open.  I could put a window unit in the kitchen, but the way my apartment is laid out, I would have to run up a $400 electric bill before I would cool the apartment.

And speaking of electricity.  I am pretty sure that someone has been tapping into my meter, because my usage has gone WAY up compared to the same month last year.  This is really strange because my brother and I were both here most of the time last July and this year, I've barely been home.  When I called Con-Edison to check it out they claimed they couldn't do anything about it because evidently there are fleas in the basement of my building, so they can't send someone to read my meter.  Even if there were no fleas, apparently I would have to investigate this myself, but the customer service (if you can call her that) rep warned me "don't go in the basement there be fleas!". 

There is one good thing that's happened this summer however....

I accepted a project manager position at a direct marketing company. 

I rock...