i was hoping to get through september by the end of the weekend, but i
lost most of saturday to a systematic link update over the review site
and i've spent most of the last 12 hours sleeping. i hadn't really slept
since thursday afternoon, so i guess i was catching up.
i'm
beginning to conclude that the remaining smoky smell in here is a
combination of dry air and dust. i might change my mind, still. i mean,
it's certainly making me cough and irritating my throat and nose, but,
since i finished the laundry last week, the only thing i've been able to
really tie it to is the heaters. the heat gradient (it's below
freezing.) right now should be defining negative pressure, so i
shouldn't really be getting pollution from outside, although it does
seem to be a continuing annoyance.
i'm going to hope
that the dust comes down as the place is put in order. it will probably
never go away entirely, but hopefully it gets a lot better. and, i'm
just going to have to get used to drinking a lot of water to offset the
extreme aridity.
is there still some chance that
somebody is smoking upstairs? i can't rule it out. but, if that's a part
of the problem, it doesn't seem to be the totality of it. i'm more
concerned about the pollution in the neighbourhood, right now, even if
somebody is up there smoking. i'm going to have to find a way to seal the windows up.
the immediate solution is to drink more water - a lot more water.
i'm
going to get through a bit more this morning, stopping before i get to
the major vlog from the night that i may have been roofied, and woke up
in some stranger's car. but, i need to put it aside for the day, at
least - and i might not get back to it until thursday.