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Wed, Feb 27, 2008

Vampire

Posted at 4:42 pm MST to Weather

Once again I'm very slightly feverish in the mid-afternoon.

This is going to sound weird, but I have just realized that the times during the past few days when my body temperature has gone over 98.6 (which is my hot-flash temperature, normal is more like 97.something) coincide with the times when the sun sneaks in and hits me.

I'm not talking about sun-bathing here: I'm talking about sun, through glass, hitting a couple of square inches on my face or the back of my neck. The stupid virus must have increased my sensitivity to sunlight.

No wonder so many of my story characters have non-standard relations with UV.

I think I need to get drapes that close better, and not just to keep the strip of sunlight from shining on the big TV.

When my relatives from New England visited, they asked, "Why do you have your windows covered? You have such a great view." Large window areas in the living/dining room and 320+ days of sunshine at 6000 ft is the reason: without curtains this room is an oven when the sun hits the windows, even in the winter, unless it is actually precipitating or a major cold wind is kicking up.

The rest of the house is protected by the porch/deck roof, but not the livingroom and dining room, and the sun hits all of these windows every afternoon. It's just a question of what angle the sun hits the windows at, and for how long. The house is at a 41 degree angle from north-south and one dining room window faces more or less southwest, with the other 3 in this area facing northwest. Now, at the end of February, half of the curtains on each northwest-facing window are glowing, and the sun is seriously stalking me through the cracks of the southwest facing curtains.

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