My room, the meat freezer

[greybeta]

To fill my new friends on some of my background, I blame my scheming roommate for bringing me to Tulsa (I actually blame him for a lot of things). We roomed together our freshman year, took a semester off, and roomed together the second semester of our sophomore year. We enjoy each other's company so much we're rooming again this year. Heck, we'll probably be roommates next year.

So I've gotten to know this guy quite a bit. But I can talk about that later. I feel a bit whimsical so I want to share the daily battle we have. And that's controlling the temperature of the room. When you have two human beings living together in the same space, the odds of them having the same preferences in regards to temperature is small. In the case of my scheming roommate and I, we are polar opposites.

Part of the reason is just pure physics, i.e. he has significantly more mass than I do.

I want it warm, like a nice autumn day. Better hot than cold, my mom always says. I don't want get sick in my own room.

He wants it cold, like a meat freezer. He claims it helps him sleep. I can always add extra layers if I'm cold, but he can't take much off if it's too hot. But there's something wrong when I'm wearing sweaters to sleep in August.

I'm happy when it's winter, cause that means there's only heat. Oh, but wait, my scheming roommate will just open the window to cool down things. Brrrrr.

When I walk into the room, I seek the make the room warmer. When he walks in, he seeks to make the room colder. I fight a losing battle, however, since he is physically superior to me.

Does anyone else have this sort of battle?

Comments

[kimmaline.livejournal.com]

My fight is just as bad, D. I not only PREFER it to be a bit warm, I NEED it to be. Nothing in the world bugs a nerve injury like the cold...so if I am not warm enough I am in a major amount of discomfort. project1half seems to vary as to how much he is willing to work with me on this. The beginning of the winter, he was all about being supportive, and actually said to me, "your pain level is too important to ignore." A couple of power bills later (this place holds in about as much heat as french lingerie) he is swearing we are going to starve to death if we don't turn the heat down.

The problem, at least part of it, I believe lies in our thermostat. To keep it barely warm enough to be comfortable at night, it is roasting here in the day. I don't understand it, the thermostat's job is to keep it a relatively constant temp...but it never works out that way.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Thermostats can lie, depending where they measure the temperature. At least it feels that way in my house.

[kimmaline.livejournal.com]

I would agree with you....except that at night it feels too cold, and during the day it feels too warm...and we aren't adjusting it at all.