Hot or not?

So is it hot or not? Outside. The thing is, I live in a room with no A/C. Yes, gasp, who does that nowadays? Well, for starters it's not my room, I am borrowing it for a few months(not renting it, I know what you think about). The worst part is that it's facing the West something, so the sun is practically harassing me the whole day. The other room of the apartment, which is presently occupied, has an A/C, however, it's facing the neighbour's window, so it's practically a cavern. Very depressing. So you're either unhappy in the dark or you're unhappy in the heat. What would you prefer. I prefer to stay in the kitchen nowadays or even the bathroom as the have the light/temperature balance figured out better. Seriously people, who designed this place?

So, as we are tortured by heat around the clock, boyfriend and I have installed this "licenced to chill" (chuckle) fan that blows right either in my eyes or nowhere. I was reading some blog, can't remember which, and there was this one post in which the blogger noted the Europeans' dislike for fans and A/C. Well, I am European and I can certainly say there is A/C in offices and I am talking about Eastern Europe, people... Oy, we can't install A/C on location, cause, well, it's outdoors, but you'll find we're quite civilized in general. And yes, we do hate fans.
I hadn't even realized that until I came to college in the US and I found myself thrown in a room with a Latina girl from a town 20 minutes away from Boston who had the same name as me - it was the joke of the year on our voice mail message - who had to keep her fan on all the time. I found it bizarre in the beginning. Then I realized the noise kept me awake and annoyed me. When I asked her why she keeps it on, she said it freshens the air. No, it doesn't, if you fucking don't open the window. It just keeps on moving around the same stench, giving me headaches in the process. When I kindly asked her to turn it off during the night, she told me she couldn't sleep without the noise and I had to deal with it and she turned on the other side. And that's how I started disliking fans and my roommate. Apparently she disliked me too, but for different reasons. I was so Eastern European back then... but again, that why they gave me that hefty scholarship, which I ended up blowing on a Film Studies major with a minor in Creative Writing.