Today has been such a miserable one. Last night should have been a lot of fun, because it was Halloween. Instead, I got stuck at home taking care of a sick friend all night long. We didn’t eat a single piece of candy, let alone put on a costume or go trick or treating. It was the least eventful Halloween I’ve had in recent memory, and I was extremely sad about how everything turned out. This morning, I woke up and went off to work in the freezing cold air. Of course, the temperature plummeted yesterday in time for the spooky holiday. Now, I was left with 0 fond memories and low air temperatures to contend with. I went off to work and completed my monotonous tasks for the day before returning back home. Of course, things couldn’t improve after this. As soon as I walked in the door upon arriving home, I realized that the air temperature was way too low. At first, I thought that maybe I had forgotten to bump up the thermostat a few days ago when the air temperature dipped. When I walked over to the air temperature control device, however, I found that the heating program was set appropriately. The issue was my actual heating output. Clearly, there was no warm air passing through the air vents. This meant to there was a much larger issue at hand, centering around to the central heating system. I was more than prepared to remedy the issue right then and there, except I didn’t have the authority to contact the landlord. As an unofficial tenant of this house, there was no way that I could reach out to the property manager for HVAC repair services. I had no choice but to finish out my miserable week with more misery. I sat silently in a pile of blankets, and waited for the cold night to pass.