issues.

Turns out we have two circuits in this apartment. One that seems kitchen-based, including three kitchen outlets, the refrigerator, and, oddly, the outlet in the bedroom where we have plugged in the air conditioner. The other circuit includes everything else... everything. On Sunday night, we blew the everything-else outlet when Marc decided to vacuum the clippings from his haircut with the living-room air conditioner running. There was a click, and then darkness, but not silence, since the air conditioner in the bedroom and the refrigerator were still running... lucky us, since it was late and a convenient time for going to sleep anyway. We tried to rouse the homeowners downstairs so I could get some work done on the novel (I've pretty much written-off this week, incidentally. No pun intended.) but the sound of their own air conditioners had already lulled them off to sleep, I suppose. The next morning we woke them up and remedied the situation immediately.

This morning I decided to have some toast and coffee. Guess what? Goodbye kitchen power. The owners are on their way home from New Hampshire, so it's not like I'll be stuck forever, but I am a little worried about the refrigerator. Memo to self: deny the urge to operate efficiently when it comes to appliances. I got used to this mentality living in my parents' house, where they mainly occupy the space constructed (and wired) by my grandfather, who was not quite as handy as he thought. And lucky me, the toast was just dry enough to be palatable and the coffee had finished brewing. The only problem was the refrigerator, which I imagine to be quickly sucking in the returning humidity and heat, was holding the milk captive. I'm mainly worried about the five or six bottles of wine and champagne (gifts and memories from Marc's last birthday trip... there is, in particular, a bottle of peach champagne I'm sure I've built up beyond its potential) that I'd rather not cycle from cold to hot and back again, but my trepidation wasn't strong enough to keep me from liberating the milk.