I slept late today. When I woke up I could breathe through my nose and felt almost as if I wasn't even sick. I thought I had managed to sleep it off.
Then I got up and had a shower.

MISTAKE.

One minute into the shower the hot water goes off. I turn it off and try to wait, because last time it was getting low, it would only go on for a short time and then turn off. Then you could try again. I ended up taking the rest of the shower in cold water. There was just enough gas to heat my two small consecutive cups of tea and just barely warm up the almond milk enough to make oats.

So much for getting better quickly. I'm sneezing away as a write. It will be tomorrow before we have hot water and are able to cook or heat anything up, other than over the electric space heater.

You'd think we'd been bombed and the infrastructure destroyed. Infrastructure...?! LOL!

At least if there were a war here we could just get on the phone and call for another bonbon. There are advantages, you know.

The system could work, but it depends not on computers, or meters. It depends on the possibly drug addled, unstable, or just head in the clouds freaky artist brain of the woman who is renting this place out, who never calls for another bonbon like my responsible young student roommates last year, until both are finished.

"Are you taking echinacea?" she asks...