Yrae Chronicles

My poor melty Europeans :< 40+ sucks enough when you live in a country prepared for such occurrances. I think I've given all my hot-weather advice over the years. Best thing is having a cold shower with just a liiiiittle bit of hot in it, enough that you can stand under it but that it'll still cool you down. Get the water especially where your blood vessels are close to the skin--armpits, scalp and butt-crack. I swear to god, cold water down your butt-crack when you're roasting hot feels sooooo good. Stand there until you're bored shitless and go back to bed. Bonus points if you don't towel off before you get there.

Also frozen grapes are great. And leech off anywhere that has aircon--shopping centres, libraries, cinemas if this thing's still going by Tightarse Tuesday. Keep the curtains closed and everything electrical turned off except the fridge. Ideally don't cook anything, either. Salad is friend. Then as soon as it gets cooler outside than in, fling eeeeeverything open and douse yourself in insect repellant.

GOOD LUCK, LOVELIES.

Meanwhile, we're having the most piss-weak winter I've ever experienced. Regularly getting days of 20+, delightful sunshine, spring blossoms are already coming out, very little rain, haven't even been tempted to use the heater all winter, eastern states remain in a hideously crippling drought... It's July. Usually I'm sick of winter by about May, but this winter has barely even felt cold. I'm kinda scared for this summer now. If northern France and the Netherlands can hit 43, shit knows what's going to happen here. We hit 48 last summer. LET'S CRACK FIFTY CELCIUS. WHY THE FUCK NOT.

In not-weather news, bloogum is progressing nicely! I've done the Yrae Chronicles, Cork's Crew and old fiction pages, so I'm a little over half done. Seem to be getting one page done a week, so I might have it finished in a month or so, that'd be nice.

I am so very ready to go back to uni. Like, tomorrow. If uni started again tomorrow I would be so very happy, despite it still being near-as 40 degrees*. I've got my timetable all sorted (nothing clashes! It's like that Honda ad where things just work! It's like it was staged to happen that way!) and tomorrow I'm going in to do last little end-tying things like buying a diary, getting a new sticker on my student card, finding if they have those giant wall planner thingoes in yet... uni stuff is happening! AND my classes and respective tutors are set to be made of awesome. Theodor and KC in one semester? Yes plz.

And yaknow what? I'm on holidays still for another MONTH. asdghlask I was getting stir crazy by new year, and having everything for uni sorted and therefore in my mind is making it worse~

Waaaaaant uni back now, plzkthx. Why do we still have another month, seriously? Frig.




* predicted only, of course. It'll actually hit 42 again, just watch. Today was actually quite cool, only got to 40.2. I just about had goosebumps walking outside an hour ago. I mean, it'd almost dropped into the high 20s! MADNESS!

WHY. IS IT STILL. FOURTY-FOUR DEGREES.