Fire

[morrigirl]

For the last two nights I've come home around midnight to find little or no heat coming out of my radiator. The thermostats for all the apartments in my building are in the landlord's apartment on the first floor so if I want the heat turned up I have to call them. They were quite asleep by the time I got in so I was unable to ask them to turn it up/on. My landlords aren't bad people, they've always been nice to me, always done what I've asked of them, but I fear pissing them off since I rent month to month and don't have a lease, and would really hate for them to suddenly decide to evict me. But I get scared when I don't have heat. Since my immune system is so weak staying in any cold environment for any extended period of time usually makes me sick. Last year we had a relatively harsh winter. I spent months sleeping in my sub-zero apartment and came down with a sinus infection every month between December and March because of it. Since then I've become more persistent and forceful when it comes to asking for my heat to be turned up. It also helps that we've had a fairly mild winter this year. Still, the heat always seems to disappear during cold spells like the one we're having now. Today is my mother's birthday so I won't be getting home before the land-people go to bed yet again this evening, so instead I'm going to call them when I get out of work and tell them I slept in a t-shirt, a sweater, and a robe under four blankets last night and they better pump the heat in my apartment before they go to bed tonight or else I'm gonna go out and buy three space heaters, plug 'em all into the same outlet, run them all night under the broken fire alarm they've yet to replace, and burn the whole damn house into the fucking conrete. I probably won't phrase it exactly like that. But I will remind them about the fire alarm and make sure they understand that the heat MUST be on when I get home.