the Dalaverse

What...just WHAT.

Our air conditioning is broken - not just ours, but everybody's, or at least everybody in our section. I just got off the phone with the leasing office where the lady explained to me that it's not working because the...water that cools the thing can't stay cool? Or something? I did not understand. Basically it boils down to "it's just so hot!" OH REALLY I HADN'T NOTICED THE HEAT INDEX OF 120, THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE INFO.

I realize this is record-breaking fucking weather, but I swear I don't remember it breaking down last year just because it was too hot (this is actually a recurring problem, the actual temperature does not reflect the thermostat setting like 75% of the time, but it hasn't been critical until now). Perhaps I just blocked the memories because they were too traumatic, I dunno - I know there was a storm that knocked out the power, but that was the whole grid, not just the AC. I just don't get how it can be working enough to make it "10 degrees cooler" and they're "trying other things" to get it to work. It works the way it fucking works (or, you know, fucking DOESN'T). How do you just, like, transfigure it to operate some other way? How air get cold?

Fortunately I am dogsitting for Dr. M tonight so I can sleep in the air-conditioned house with the little dogs, but that does not solve the larger problem. Do we just turn the AC off entirely? Will the paint melt off the walls? What about the next time it hits 95+ (because it will happen, oh yes, August is just around the corner)? HOW is it considered fixing the problem when solution is just "wait until it gets less hot"? And I'm lucky that I have my parents' house to retreat to if necessary, but goddamnit I pay rent and utilities for an AIR-CONDITIONED APARTMENT, and anyway what about people who have nowhere else to go?

Fuck summer. I fucking hate it. I can't handle heat, my brain stops being able to process anything beyond "hothothotI'msohot", I wither up and die inside and am a horrible miserable person morning noon and night. Fans do not help, because LUKEWARM AIR BLOWING DIRECTLY ON ME NOOOOO. I can't wait until November. No, January.