やった... we finally have some fall weather. And that means one thing: fan in the window. I cannot get enough of this autumn air. Especially at night. I grew up in a relatively cold place. One of my favorite things was falling asleep with my body wrapped in a blanket like a burrito while enjoying the cool air on my face. There's a bit about that in Moby Dick. Melville wrote: "to truly enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast." If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd be quoting Melville in a blog someday, I probably would've shat myself laughing... and maybe called them an asshat.
But all that aside, my housemate is not the biggest fan of cold. Thus, my (almost) forty-year-old ass can sometimes be found occupying a little "fort" in the curtains by the window. I have my cool air and the fan in the window, yet the heavy drapes keep the rest of the apartment relatively warm. It's a win-win situation, I think. A rather creative solution, perhaps. Well, I had to resort to using the curtains because our sofa has only two removable cushions. That isn't nearly enough to build a proper fort with.
