Ode to Living in a Freezer

Shite, it is freezing here! Well, actually it is just around freezing outside but this old flat I am residing in is about as far from heat efficient as possible. Gas to heat the boiler is not the cheapest so I have been trying to see exactly how much cold I can tolerate in the apartment. At what point does your core body temperature recede? A wise person once told me the ills that can occur if your body temperature drops, although I have forgotten all...
Living life in a cold state is not fun but it has definitely routinized my life. After hitting the snooze alarm 8 times, I emerge from the cocoon I have built out of 3 duvets to stay warm.
Then I make a bee-line to the radiator in the TV room and turn it on so I can sit on it while I manage to push Frosted Flakes through chattering teeth. After pouring half of my coffee on my feet to defrost them, I shut down the radiator and head to work. After work when back at the apartment, I perform the "see your breath test" and if it is positive, then I treat myself to a de-winterized TV room. Later I remake the cocoon and enter it for the nights hibernation. Unfortunately, I cannot take a shower as a source of warming up beacause for some goofy reason the water comes out of the shower head just at room temperature but out of the bottom spicket hot. So it's a regression to thrice weekly baths for me, which actually is not a bad plight. This all would not have happened if I received a heating bill like you do in the States. Otherwise right now I would running that sucker on High until I received my first bill 2 or 3 weeks from now, at which time it would have too late to freeze myself. But here, you use a credit card slotted gas meter that allows you to easily pay and track your spending and usage.

I tried my best to insulate the windows but I am ready to revert to Franklin County meth-head tactics and just throw some blankets over my windows. Funny how just about this time last year I was b*tching in a blogpost about the trying to sleep in 95 degree weather in Buenos Aires. I miss the heat.

Burrrrrian.