Let me introduce you to my archenemy:
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| Mr. Breezy |
Dun dun daaah: the ventilation system. When I first started work at the archives, this dude was constantly blasting cold air at our backs.
After weeks and weeks of suffering through this, we finally got up the gumption to play with our thermostat (not always the best idea in an archive/special collections office, but we were desperate, and tired of wearing jackets in July):
The room began to warm up! and for a time, things were good :). But . . .the warming trend did not stop. The working room got hotter . . .and hotter . . .
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| AND HOTTER |
. . . until sweaty-handed me couldn't do my work properly without sweating all over archival documents and rare books. No bueno. So they got me this!
And once again, for a brief time, everything was good. That is, until the maintenance guy arrived. Well meaning, he told us the thermostat was broken, and that was the cause of our overheating distress. The fix?
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| no thermostat |
Proudly, the maintenance fellow announced that our heat problems were solved. . .we were now on full cool! Which, of course meant that my friend
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| Mr. Breezy |
was back.
The joys of library living! I have yet to set foot in one whose temperature is just right. Until then,
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| Chillily yours |
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