{"id":19821,"date":"2020-08-19T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19821"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:40:11","slug":"student-editors-letter-heat-hunger-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/08\/19\/student-editors-letter-heat-hunger-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: Heat, hunger, and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in an apartment built in the \u201970s, in a unit facing the dark parking-lot pavement and located directly over both the boiler and the laundry room, isn\u2019t a whole lot of fun by the time mid-August hits. Even with an air conditioner that sounds like a chain-smoking R2-D2, I\u2019m constantly going to the fridge for a frozen beanbag or a Ziploc of ice.<\/p>\n

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A sign on Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday night was one of about 15 times in my life where thunder was rumbling and lightning was flashing. The poor cats were losing their minds, and the heat gives most a short fuse; on top of that, the entire day had been spent essentially basking in a sweat bath doing long-procrastinated weekend stuff like cleaning out the two hall closets. Now, I don\u2019t know why I thought a near-30-degree day would be ideal for doing this. I was wrong. Oh, and before starting at noon, I had seen fit to go for a five-kilometre jog on an empty stomach. I\u2019m always in a great mood after I exercise\u2026 provided I don\u2019t have to actually do anything after\u2014in that case, I\u2019m in a horrible mood after I exercise.<\/p>\n

Sunday was a bad day. Nothing was going right. And on top of everything else, I was worrying about COVID-19 cases going up, thinking about what idiots we had all\u2014myself included\u2014been these past few months.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a crystal ball, and I hope you can all laugh at how wrong I was, but on Sunday I was sure beyond a doubt that we are about to pay a huge price for not locking ourselves down enough. Strap hunger, exhaustion, heat, and a massive mess in the closets to that and you\u2019ve got Grumpy Adam.<\/p>\n

So sometimes, I suppose, the best thing I can do when I\u2019m having a day is have it. Do what\u2019s got to be done regardless and recognize that, in this case, my petulance was my own fault, as it usually is. I hope I can look back and laugh at how wrong I was, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living in an apartment built in the \u201970s, in a unit facing the dark parking-lot pavement and located directly over both the boiler and the laundry room, isn\u2019t a whole lot of fun by the time mid-August hits. Even with an air conditioner that sounds like a chain-smoking R2-D2, I\u2019m constantly going to the fridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19823,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions\/19823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}